Vietnam : 2022/2023 Monkeypox

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Source: https://www.canindia.com/vietnam-rep...onkeypox-case/

Vietnam reports its first monkeypox case
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Vietnam’s Health Ministry has said that a 35-year-old woman had been diagnosed with monkeypox, who became the first case of monkeypox detected in the Southeast Asian country.

A resident in southern Ho Chi Minh City, the patient fell ill on September 18 while travelling in Dubai with symptoms of fever, fatigue, chills, muscle aches, headache and a cough, as well as red and itchy bumps on her arms, body and face, before returning to Vietnam on September 22, state media cited the Ministry on Monday as reporting.

On September 23, she was admitted to Tu Du hospital in the city and transferred to the Municipal Hospital of Dermato Venereology, where she was isolated, Xinhua news agency reported.

Two days later, the patient tested positive for monkeypox and was transferred to the Municipal Hospital for Tropical Diseases for further isolation, treatment and genetic sequencing. She is currently in stable condition with no fever, according to the report...

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Source: https://www.prensa-latina.cu/2022/10...viruela-simica

Vietnam excludes risk of transmission from another monkeypox case
October 21, 2022 CDT04:35 (GMT) -0400

Hanoi, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Health authorities in Ho Chi Minh City today denied the possibility that there is any danger of community transmission, after a second case of monkeypox was detected in that southern Vietnamese metropolis.

The patient carrying the disease was isolated upon arrival at the Tan Son Nhat airport and did not come into contact with anyone, therefore the risk of community contagion is zero, said the deputy director of the Center for Disease Control of that city, Nguyen Hong Tam.

The specialist, said the VNA news agency, also explained that there is not enough information to confirm that the two patients, both infected while visiting Dubai, were in contact, although it is known that they lived in the same accommodation.

The second Vietnamese citizen infected with monkeypox is a 38-year-old woman living in the northern province of Tuyen Quang, who presented symptoms such as fever, nausea and blisters since October 11 and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday. where she was immediately quarantined.

The first case of the disease reported in Vietnam was also a 35-year-old woman, who was discharged last October 14 from the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the southern metropolis.

After three weeks of quarantine and medical treatment, the inmate tested negative and her contacts are safe, a hospital representative said at the time.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak as infections surged globally, with more than 35,000 cases reported in 92 countries and territories.

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Source: https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/...chi-minh-city/


6 new monkeypox cases registered in Ho Chi Minh City
Published Oct 17, 2023

Tuoi Tre News

Ho Chi Minh City recorded six more cases of monkeypox, an illness caused by the monkeypox virus, over the past week, increasing the total monkeypox cases in the city since early this year to 19, the municipal Department of Health reported on Monday.

Among the new cases, two entered Vietnam and one left for Taiwan.

Twelve patients are currently under quarantine and receiving treatment.

All of them are in a stable state of health...

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Source: https://www.canindia.com/18-out-of-2...ive-for-hiv-4/

18 out of 20 monkeypox cases in Vietnam test positive for HIV
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Eighteen out of 20 monkeypox cases recorded in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City hace tested positive for HIV, the Department of Health has confirmed.

All 20 cases are being treated at the city’s National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Xinhua news agency reported.

Two cases are progressing seriously with multiple infections, the Department said.

Other patients have positive health progress, Vietnam Television (VTV) reported...

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Source: https://vietnamnews.vn/society/16056...from-mpox.html


Việt Nam records first death from mpox
October 25, 2023 - 13:37
The patient was admitted to HCM City Hospital of Tropical Diseases on October 2, 2023 with fever and blisters.

HCM CITY — Việt Nam has recorded its first death from monkeypox (mpox), a 29-year-old man from Long An Province.

He was infected with both mpox and late-stage HIV/AIDS.

The patient was admitted to HCM City Hospital of Tropical Diseases on October 2, 2023 with fever and blisters.

He suffered from multiple infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis and severe multiple organ failure, and died after 18 days of treatment.

HCM City has recorded 20 mpox cases since the beginning of this year. Among those, 18 patients, including 17 men and one woman, tested positive for HIV.

All cases are being quarantined and treated at the city’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases...

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Source: https://vietnamnews.vn/society/16358...thorities.html


HCM City records 33 mpox cases in 2023, all male: health authorities
October 28, 2023 - 17:08
Deputy Director of HCM City's Centre for Disease Control Lê Hồng Nga said among them, there has been one death due to immunosuppression.


Deputy Director of HCM City's Centre for Disease Control Lê Hồng Nga. —Photo HCM City CDC

HCM CITY — From the beginning of 2023 until October 22, HCM City recorded 33 confirmed cases of mpox through PCR testing, according to the southern city's health authorities.

Deputy Director of HCM City's Centre for Disease Control Lê Hồng Nga said among them, there has been one death due to immunosuppression. The patient had a number of underlying diseases.

The remaining patients witnessed more stable progression in conditions. Eight have completed the 14-day isolation and treatment as per the health ministry's regulations, and the skin lesions on their bodies have completely healed.

Nga said the situation of the mpox outbreak in HCM City is similar to the disease situation worldwide.

All 33 cases of mpox in HCM City are male, which is roughly the same as the worldwide estimated figure of 95 per cent of patients being male...

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Source: https://english.news.cn/20231109/e53...11b99f6/c.html

Vietnam reports 56 monkeypox cases
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2023-11-09 17:51:45

HANOI, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 56 monkeypox cases in seven provinces and cities including one death as of Oct. 31, according to the latest update of the Ministry of Health.

About 63 percent of the infection cases tested positive for HIV, local media reported Thursday. Among those cases, two were from abroad and detected in 2022.

Vietnam is predicted to continue to record new cases not only in southern Ho Chi Minh City but also in other large cities, the ministry said...

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Source: https://en.sggp.org.vn/mekong-delta-...ost106261.html

Mekong Delta province records first monkeypox case
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November 11, 2023 at 21:30:27
The Mekong Delta Province of Ben Tre recorded the first case of monkeypox who is being quarantined for treatment.

A representative of the Center for Disease Control of Ben Tre province said that a 31-year-old young man working as a receptionist got monkeypox. The patient is being isolated in a motel room, waiting to be transferred to the hospital for treatment.

Previously, the male patient started having symptoms of sore throat and blisters on the upper lip area on November 3 so he went to a hospital in Ben Tre City for examination. The patient had contact with a medical worker but both were wearing masks.

However, his symptoms of the disease did not abate but more blisters appeared in the anus, genitals, face, and hands; thus, on November 9, the patient took the car to Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital for examination where medical workers soon took his sample following a suspicion that the man got monkeypox symptoms. Then the young man returned to his house in Ben Tre...

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Source: https://en.sggp.org.vn/vietnam-recor...ost106775.html

Vietnam records one more monkeypox case in Mekong Delta province
SGGPO
December 6, 2023 at 03:02:00

This morning, the Tien Giang Center for Disease Control (CDC) said it had just recorded a positive case of monkeypox virus.

According to the provincial Center for Disease Control’s records, the monkeypox patient is from Cam Son Commune in Tien Giang Province’s Cai Lay District. Initially, the patient began to have symptoms of the disease including skin lesions blisters scattered on the face, chest, arms, buttocks, and chills on November 20.

The patient visited the Ho Chi Minh City-based Hospital of Tropical Disease on November 24 and had samples taken for testing. Test results showed that the patient was positive for the monkeypox virus...