Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Vietnam: Summary of Current Situation

Diseases in children increased abnormal
18/08/2010
TP - dengue fever, pneumonia, fever, hand foot and mouth virus is abnormal increase in the South East region, causing many children's hospital overload.
HCMC Pasteur Institute, said not only SXH raging epidemic in the city but also spread to the southwest province that the provincial and hospital on serious overload.
Dr. Le Thi Bich Lien, deputy director of a Children's Hospital, doctors were concerned when not in "top service", but hand-foot-mouth disease in children was high. Even Rubella disease also tends to increase again.
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Viral Fever
Adult admission increased viral fever
Associated Press - 15 hours ago 18 views

TT - The day Tropical Disease Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City received 10 adult patients with viral fever to hospital treatment, more than doubled compared with the time of delivery season.
On 17-8, doctor Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, deputy director of HCM City Tropical Disease Hospital, said most patients hospitalized with fever virus in the state of high fever (39-40 degrees), pain body aches, headache ... Ten hospitalized patients per day in viral fever can be severe, but some patients have fever virus in the form of mild to visit private clinics or self-purchased drugs may be much larger.

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H1N1
In just over a week, 2 Children's Hospital has received two cases of patients infected with H1N1 flu. We both are being treated at the Department of Infection, disease progression is not dangerous to life.

On 6 / 8 2 Children's Hospital and received treatment for cases of child NQV (14 months old, live in District 2). Baby V. have manifested a high fever on family should be moved to follow the treatment here.
V. little doubt H1N1 influenza infection should doctors conducted tests. On 12 / 8 V. The results show little were positive for the virus.
On 14 / 8, the hospital again to receive more cases of a baby 30 months old (living in Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai). Many patients have expressed high fever, cough a lot before about a week hospitalization. After admission or more baby sea and there is pneumonia.
After conducting tests, the results showed that patients were positive for influenza virus H1N1.
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PPRS
On 08/13/2010 at st. Ho Chi Minh, the Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (MARD) has organized the conference "Implementation of urgent measures to prevent PRRS in the southern provinces." As of early August 2010, only the southern provinces had infected 120,069 pigs in which the death and destruction is at 35,027 children.
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Streptococcus
An evolution from blue ear pig disease, doctor Nguyen Van Vinh Chau -deputy director of HCM City Tropical Disease Hospital - said that from June to now has received hospital treatment and for 14 cases admitted to hospital suffering meningitis caused by Streptococcus latex pigs caused. Most of these patients are pigs, pig meat, or eat pork or pork blood pudding was not cooked.
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