Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Thanh Hoa: Some patients have influenza A/H5N1

Update: Yesterday, at 21:29 - Source: vnMedia.vn
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(VnMedia) - Today (6 / 1), Health Center for Thanh Hoa for patients Bui Thi Thao, 8 years old, in the village of Indonesia, Vietnam Dien, Ba Thuoc District (Thanh Hoa) have been infected influenza A/H5N1.

Patients with Thao manifestation mild fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue from a day 27/12/2008 and treatment at home and in clinics, but not out. To date 2/1/2009, see Thao have difficulty breathing manifestation of the patient was transferred to hospital in Ba Thuoc district. Here, the doctors diagnose patients with pneumonia due to viruses and transferred to the Hospital Thanh Hoa province.

Even in 2 / 1, the form's disease Thao you were sent to the sanitation epidemiology Central to test and had positive results for H5N1. Currently, patients have good progress.

Earlier, in Central Fill with the dead birds scattered in 6 / 12 villages. 6 households in the surrounding Thao you have been sick birds, dead. Especially family child Thao also has 9 children chickens, Muscovy ducks died, the family has 4 children meat to eat, the remaining network buried.

Department of preventive health, hygiene and the epidemiology central coordination with local direct investigation process outbreak, organizations spend h the entire number of poultry outbreaks have in the number of 527 children and the relatives continued destruction of poultry in the village with sick poultry, died; pepper spray chemicals in khử represents 151 households in the village Delete. Health Center for Thanh Hoa province has collected 40 samples of objects direct contact with patients and 8 samples of poultry in order to send test.

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