Vietnam: 40% is Japanese Encephalitis, the rest: Unknown

6/06/2010,

While encephalitis began to "season" in the North with the number of patients are increasing fast, people still confusion over the information appears a new virus causing encephalitis in dangerous levels Nam Dinh and Bac Giang.

Appearance of new strains?

Recently, the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology has discovered a new virus causing encephalitis in children's level of Bac Giang and Nam Dinh. Expression of the disease are high fever, convulsions and often rapidly fatal. Talking with us on this issue, Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Yen, Head of Epidemiology - National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said encephalitis virus by many radical causes, of which approximately 30 - 40% is due to Japanese encephalitis virus, the remaining unknown causes.

Currently scientists are studying the likely appearance of new virus causing encephalitis vaccine for children in Nam Dinh, Bac Giang. But that's just the problems being studied, rather than a formal conclusion.

TS. Tran Nhu Duong - Deputy Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology said, encephalitis virus may be caused by different viruses. Symptoms of the most common include: sudden high fever, headache, vomiting accompanied by mental symptoms from mild to severe, such as drowsiness, Libya, drowsiness, confusion, disorientation, kiss love and neurological symptoms such as convulsions, spasms, irregular movements, paralysis. In our country, besides the most important root cause is due to viral encephalitis Japanese encephalitis, the radical Left can be caused by herpes viruses, intestinal virus, encephalitis due to complications after measles, mumps, hand foot mouth ...

Now the real work has appeared a new virus causing encephalitis or not the Health Ministry announced, based on sufficient scientific evidence and practice. Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology is the research agency, if discovered new problems will report to the Ministry of Health.

Actually this is not the first appearance about a new virus causing encephalitis level in Nam Dinh and Bac Giang. Earlier, in late 2008 has information Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology discovered a new virus causing brain syndrome in Bac Giang province level. This virus was named the "nightmare" (Acmong virus) because it causes panic attacks in the patient's sleep and then patients will be comatose and death in a few hours ... Reportedly, the Ministry of Health is continuing research on this new virus.

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Currently, treatment of viral encephalitis is based largely on symptoms, but no specific drug treatment. Therefore, experts recommend that epidemiological preventive measures is the best Japanese encephalitis vaccine.