17:39' 09/07/2009 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam affirmed 11 new A/H1N1 cases on July 8, raising the total number to 259, with no deaths so far.
Of 11 new cases, there were three in a group of 39 students in HCM City who travelled to Australia and shared a flight with 63 other students. They are hospitalised at the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases. The local authorities asked the school of these students to allow them to stay at home.
A total of 186 patients have left hospitals. The remaining cases are in stable condition.
40 days after the first case was recorded in Vietnam, the national flu control system has not discovered any sign that the flu has spread in the community. Vietnam has successfully controlled the disease at its border gates.
However, the Health Ministry worries that A/H1N1 may break out in Vietnam when students go back to school this August, said Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, chief of the Preventive Health Agency on July 8.
Dr. Nguyen Van Kinh, director of the National Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, said that only four of 19 A/H1N1 cases in the north were still being treated at the hospital. However, two of them, who returned from Australia, showed some signs of Tamiflu resistance. They were treated by Tamiflu for seven days but test results were positive for H1N1 though clinical symptoms disappeared after three days of treatment.
The institute sent samples to the National Institute for Epidemiology for testing again to seek the reason.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on July 7 announced 94,512 A/H1N1 cases in 135 countries and territories in the world, including 429 deaths.
In Southeast Asia, the Philippines has recorded 1709 cases, with one death; Singapore 1055; Thailand 2428 and 9 deaths.
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