Vietnam: Reports Dating Back to Spring 2013 for H1N1 Deaths

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More of deaths from A/H1N1 flu
 24.04.2013 [April 24, 2013]

This information is confirmed by the Ministry of Health in the National Steering Committee pandemic human influenza, which took place in Hanoi on 23-4. Dr. Tran Dac Phu, deputy director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, said current circulating in Vietnam at the same time as many types of flu A/H5N1 and A/H1N1, influenza A/H3N2 and influenza B, with many deaths due to the influenza virus. For influenza A/H5N1, from early 2013 to now, there are two cases of this flu in Dong Thap and Long An province, including one case in Dong Thap province have died.

Meanwhile, the A/H1N1 flu situation is also complicated, with multiple consecutive deaths from the virus. In particular, the latest death was a 12-year-old girl (in Vinh Loc, Thanh Hoa Hospital mortality in tropical Central 23-4 in the morning. This is the 3rd case of death due to influenza A / H1N1 in Tropical Diseases Hospital Central early this year (last two deaths were in Yen Bai).

MA Nguyen Hong Ha, deputy director of Tropical Diseases Hospital Central, said the patients in the hospital in a state of severe respiratory distress, placed endotracheal tube, mechanical ventilation. Results showed that patients testing positive for the H1N1 virus.

Notably, representing the Department of Preventive Medicine also said flu surveillance results showed key nations, nearly 1,000 samples of flu syndrome surveillance from early 2013 to date shows that of the 119 samples syndrome positive for influenza A/H1N1 infection rate is at most (48%), followed by influenza B, and the third is the A/H3N2 flu.

http://baoangiang.com.vn/newsdetails/1D3FE1946A6/Lai_them_ca_tu_vong_vi_cum_A_H1N1.aspx 

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A Yen Bai H1N1 flu fatalities
4/6/2013 (April 6, 2013)

The patient was transferred to the hospital on 28/3 in severe respiratory distress, two injured lung infiltrates whole. Although mechanical ventilation, use of Tamiflu but of the disease worsening. The patient died two days later in hospital.

Dr. Nguyen Hong Ha, deputy director of the Tropical Disease Hospital Central, said: "Currently, we focus on the new H7N9 influenza strain. However, not so that people with all the other strains . Such a case male patients dying from H1N1 flu on history perfectly healthy, with no chronic conditions.

http://giadinh.vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/song-khoe/nhip-song/mot-nguoi-yen-bai-tu-vong-vi-cum-h1n1-2652498.html




And here is the 2nd death in Yen Bai:
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One patient died of influenza A/H1N1
4/19/2013 (April 19, 2013)

TP - On 18/4, data from active medical treatment - Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) said that same morning, 27-year-old male patient (in Yen Binh district, Yen Bai province) of influenza A/H1N1 (Pioneer reported) deaths with complications severe multi-organ failure.

On 14/4, hospitalized patients in respiratory failure, hypoxemia have ventilation, coagulopathy, multiple organ failure, prognostic risk of death. From early 2013, with 3 deaths from influenza A/H1N1. On 4/4, 4-year-old boy in the southern province of Dong Thap and A/H1N1 flu fatalities on 9/4, another patient died at Hospital for Tropical Diseases central levels.

http://www.tienphong.vn/Suc-Khoe/623455/Mot-benh-nhan-mac-cum-AH1N1-tu-vong-tpp.html