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Myanmar: Outbreak of unidentified disease in Naga Autonomous Administrative Area
In 2016, 80 people died of measles and other infectious diseases in Nan Yun and Lahe Townships in Naga
| NE NOW NEWS | YANGON | August 26, 2018 4:16 pm
Myanmar?s -Ministry of Health, Infectious Diseases Eradication Department (Central) says over 100 children in Don Hee Town, Nan Yun Township, Naga Autonomous Administrative Area were being treated for an unidentified disease, Mizzima News reports.
According to the report, the outbreak of the unidentified disease first took place in early August and the main problem area is Don Hee Town, Wan Dote village in Myanmar.
?According to the latest available information, over 100 children have been infected with this disease. We cannot say exactly yet what happened in this area. A field medical team is going to that area and they are on their way. The sub-township medical officer from the nearby area has reached there but we have not received yet any detailed information. This area is remote and far-flung area so that we cannot get yet detail information on this disease,? the report quoted a health department official.
Symptoms of this disease were fever, reddish eye, and rashes on the skin.
Chairman of Don Hee Town Naga Culture Association, John Shan, said that most of the children who were infected were from kindergarten to Grade 6...
Myanmar: Outbreak of unidentified disease in Naga Autonomous Administrative Area
In 2016, 80 people died of measles and other infectious diseases in Nan Yun and Lahe Townships in Naga
| NE NOW NEWS | YANGON | August 26, 2018 4:16 pm
Myanmar?s -Ministry of Health, Infectious Diseases Eradication Department (Central) says over 100 children in Don Hee Town, Nan Yun Township, Naga Autonomous Administrative Area were being treated for an unidentified disease, Mizzima News reports.
According to the report, the outbreak of the unidentified disease first took place in early August and the main problem area is Don Hee Town, Wan Dote village in Myanmar.
?According to the latest available information, over 100 children have been infected with this disease. We cannot say exactly yet what happened in this area. A field medical team is going to that area and they are on their way. The sub-township medical officer from the nearby area has reached there but we have not received yet any detailed information. This area is remote and far-flung area so that we cannot get yet detail information on this disease,? the report quoted a health department official.
Symptoms of this disease were fever, reddish eye, and rashes on the skin.
Chairman of Don Hee Town Naga Culture Association, John Shan, said that most of the children who were infected were from kindergarten to Grade 6...
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