Vietnam: 2012 Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases- EV-71 responsible for deaths and 80% of cases

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Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/soci...its-south.html


Hand-foot-mouth disease hits south
The Ministry of Health and HCM City officials will work together to send medical staff and equipment to areas in the south to fight an outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease.

Hua Ngoc Thuan, deputy chairman of the city's People's Committee, said staff would be sent to the provinces with the highest fatality and infection rates in order to treat the disease in its earliest stages.

The number of people infected with the disease rose sharply compared with last year, particularly in highly populated areas, said Thuan, who met with an inspection team led by Nguyen Thanh Long, deputy minister of health, last Friday.

A total of 1,351 people contracted the disease in HCM City so far this year, three times higher than the figure recorded in the same period last year, according to Pham Viet Thanh, director of the city's Department of Health. One person has died this year.

An average of 200 people are hospitalised every week in HCM City...

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Updated March, 26 2012 10:19:23
Hand-foot-mouth campaign begins

HCM CITY ? With the number of hand-foot-and-mouth (HFMD) infections rising, HCM City last Saturday launched a campaign to raise public awareness.

The campaign aims to raise public awareness on preventive measures to control outbreak of the disease through television and radio broadcasts, newspaper announcements and brochures delivered to households.

The message will also be spread through cars that will ply the streets publicising preventive measures.

Medical personnel will work with schools in the city to encourage teachers and students to maintain hygiene.

The campaign is being carried out by the municipal People's Committee in coordination with the Department of Health and Centre for Health Education and Communication.

As of March 21, around 1,530 HFMD cases were detected in the city, with one death, said Nguyen Tan Binh, deputy director of the city's Department of Health...

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Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2012/4/100609/

Thursday, Apr 05, 2012, Posted at: 16:52(GMT+7)
HFMD spreading in preschools in southern Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City has reported 1,836 people infected with hand-foot-mouth disease and two deaths in the first three months of the year, said Dr. Le Minh **** from the Department of Health.

Dr. **** was speaking at a meeting on April 4, to review the prevention of the disease in schools. He said that 35 per cent of the cases were reported in the 3 to 5-year-old age group, mostly pre-schoolers.

Most of the children were living in the city?s suburban districts like Binh Tan, Binh Chanh, Thu Duc and Hoc Mon, said Dr. ****.

Nguyen Dac Tho, deputy director of the HCMC Preventive Health Centre, said it is a high risk factor that the disease is spreading among children in preschools.

The Ministry of Health assessed that in the southern hub, the Mekong delta province of An Giang had the highest ratio of 451 infected children with four deaths in the first three months of the year.

Ministry health officials revealed this figure at a meeting with the health department of An Giang Province...

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VIETNAM: Mild disease turns deadly for children

BANGKOK, 5 April 2012 (IRIN) - A dangerous strain of the typically non-lethal hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) has affected more than 21,000 persons - mostly children younger than five - killing 16 thus far in Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Health.

?Despite being a benign viral infection in developed countries, the strain EV71 of HFMD is causing multiple deaths of children under five here in Asia. We are especially worried about South Vietnam, where lots of children are in informal [hygienically unregulated] cr?ches while their parents work,? Bhupinder Tomar, representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Vietnam, told IRIN...

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Source: http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/s...this-year.html

Sixteen die from hand-foot-mouth disease this year

HCM CITY ? The minister of health and pediatricians nationwide yesterday (April 5) gathered to discuss measures to reduce fatalities caused by hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), which had killed 16 people nationwide this year.

"Training courses on surveillance, prevention and control of HFMD for doctors as well as nurses at pediatric health care facilities is a must to restrain the number of deaths due to HFMD," said Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

"Five training units have been set up for all doctors and nurses at pediatric health care facilities nationwide, with a focus on localities with high infection cases and deaths.

"Proper implementation of formal guidelines for surveillance, prevention and treatment of the disease, which were issued by the ministry last year, will help to treat the disease effectively," Tien said.

The ministry has worked with provincial people's committees to provide funding for local health care facilities so they can buy necessary equipment as well as medicines for treatment.

By the end of March, 21,295 cases of HFMD were reported nationwide, including 16 deaths, according to statistics released by the ministry's Preventive Medicine Department.

The number of cases rose by 9.1 per cent against the same period last year while the number of fatalities were three times higher than last year's figures.

All deaths were caused by enterovirus 71 (EV71), with children under three years old accounting for 87.5 per cent and the remaining 12.5 per cent children between three to five years old.

The southern region reported the highest number of infection cases (9,337) and fatalities (13)...

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Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2012/4/100663/

Monday, Apr 09, 2012, Posted at: 11:47(GMT+7)
Lack of skilled doctors to tackle HFMD pandemic

In the first three months of the year, the country reported 21,295 infected cases of hand-foot-mouth disease and 17 child deaths due to lack of skilled doctors, said Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

Speaking at a conference to discuss measures to minimise hand-foot-mouth disease deaths, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien warned that the pandemic was more serious than last year. She asked health units to strengthen measures against the disease that has spread to all 63 provinces and cities of the country...

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One more child dies of HFMD, bringing death toll to 18
Tuoi Tre
Updated : Wed, April 11, 2012,12:59 PM (GMT+0700)

A 3-year-old baby died from hand, foot and mouth (HFMD) disease at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital last Saturday, taking the total death toll from the disease to 18 nationwide so far this year, the HCMC Health Department reported.

The baby girl, from An Giang Province, was admitted into the Pediatrics 1 Hospital at 9:30 pm on April 7 and died an hour later due to her critical condition. The baby contracted HFMD at level 4, doctors said...

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Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2012/4/100779/

Monday, Apr 16, 2012, Posted at: 15:01(GMT+7)
Inadequate facilities a set-back in tackling HFMD

Doctors in the Mekong delta hospitals are at their wits end as to how to cope with the high number of incoming patients affected with hand-foot-mouth disease.

The disease has also developed a complicated strain, and some regions like An Giang Province are suffering pandemic conditions with the highest number of reported patients in the country.

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Division in the Children Hospital in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho is always overloaded with hundreds of young inpatients who come accompanied with relatives that sit around and lie on floors of the rooms or hospital lobby.

Nguyen Thi Kim Hoang from Ba Lang Commune in Cai Rang District, who is taking care of her grandchild, said she and her daughter-in-law take turns to sleep outside the room has 10 of the beds are already cramped with 30 children.

The Children Hospital in Can Tho is the only facility in the region; subsequently, all cases of hand-foot-mouth disease are transferred to the hospital. Till the end of March, the hospital had treated nearly 4,500 children, two of whom succumbed to the disease.

Critically speaking, relatives of infected children with low awareness can make the situation worse, as they carry the sick child to other parts of the hospital, despite doctors? warnings.

Consequently, only children with severe infection must be hospitalised while those with mild infection should be treated at home. Doctors will instruct relatives of mildly sick children on ways to take care of them at home.

The Preventative Medicine Centres in Ca Mau and Tien Giang Provinces each have recorded over 500 hand-foot-mouth cases, a fourfold increase compared to the same period last year. On the other hand, Dong Thap Province reported over 1,000 cases with two deaths, a six fold increase from the same period last year...

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Hand, foot and mouth disease kills 18 children in Vietnam
18 Apr 2012 13:01
Source: alertnet // Thin Lei Win

By Thin Lei Win

HANOI (AlertNet) - A virulent strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed 18 children in Vietnam since the start of the year and there are concerns more could die as record infection levels continue, the Red Cross said on Wednesday.

The disease has already infected over 28,000 children in the Southeast Asian country this year, more than 10 times the number of children infected in the same period last year, a senior official from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said.

"The worry is that if we don't intervene now it would become very endemic and you would need a much more long-term programme (to tackle it)," Bhupinder Tomar, IFRC's country representative in Vietnam, told AlertNet...

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Two more children die of HFMD in Vietnam
Last Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012 04:20:00


Ho Chi Minh City has reported two more fatal cases of the hand, foot and mouth disease this month.
A two year old boy, only identified as H.C.P., died on the night of May 9 after being admitted with fever and blisters to the HCMC Children?s Hospital No.1 the next day, Tuoi Tre reported Sunday.

Earlier, another boy of the same age named T.T.P. died at the hospital on May 1, after falling sick on April 29.
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100% of HFMD patients killed by EV71 virus
VietNamNet Bridge ? Enterovirus 71 (EV71), the most dangerous of the viruses that cause HFMD, has been responsible for 22 deaths attributed to the disease in Vietnam so far this year, health authorities reported.

The Health Preventive Department under the Health Ministry released the warning yesterday, May 16, when it reported on the latest developments of the disease.

The country had 2,800 new patients last week, taking the total number of people who have contracted the disease so far this year to more than 43,000, mostly young children, of whom 22 have died, the department said.

Compared to the previous week, the number of patients last week was reduced by 17 percent. In the Central Highlands area, the reduction rate was higher, at 24 percent.
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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/society/22429/100--of-hfmd-patients-killed-by-ev71-virus.html

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Hand, foot, and mouth disease kills 27 kids in Vietnam
TUOI TRE
Updated : Thu, May 24, 2012,1:36 PM (GMT+0700)

With five children dying of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) during the past two weeks, Vietnam has had a total 27 deaths of the disease so far this year, the Health Ministry reported.

All the dead were under five years old, the ministry said.

The disease has affected about 50,000 people so far this year, about 10 times higher than the same period last year.

The ten provinces and cities that are leading the country in HFMD infection are Hai Phong, Bac Can, Yen Bai, Da Nang, Lao Cai, Hoa Binh, Vinh Phuc, Quang Tri, Binh Dinh and Dong Thap.
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Medical workers struggle to contain spread of HFMD
More than 46,000 hand-foot-mouth cases have been reported in the country since the beginning of 2012, with 27 fatalities, but till now the disease has not been contained.


Why the disease is developing into a complicated strain and the various difficulties in preventing it from spreading were topics of grave concern at an online meeting held by the Ministry of Health with 19 provinces and cities across the country on May 25.

Tran Thanh Duong, deputy head of the ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine, said that across 63 provinces and cities in the country, 46,277 people had become infected with the disease since the beginning of the year, including 27 fatalities.

Apart from that, in May alone, an additional 6,569 people were reported infected with hand-foot-mouth disease, said Duong.
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http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2012/5/101389/

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HFMD in Vietnam plagued by most harmful virus strain
Last Updated: Friday, June 01, 2012 04:20:00


More infections of hand, foot and mouth in Vietnam have been caused by EV-71, the most common and dangerous strain of Enterovirus, which prompts the disease, a health official said.

Doctor Nguyen Tran Hien, head of Vietnam National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said the increasing influence of the strain ?is the most worrying factor about HFMD infections in Vietnam at the present,? according to a report Friday by news website Dan Tri.

Vietnam has reported 27 HFMD deaths out of around 50,000 infections so far this year, and all the fatalities were caused by the Enterovirus 71, according to latest statistics from the Health Ministry.

The statistics also showed EV-71 has caused around 80 percent of the infections this year.

Last year, many but not all of 169 deaths were caused by the virus strain and only 20 percent of the 110,000 infections came from it. Most of the cases were instead caused by the Coxsackie strain, Hai told the media on the sidelines of a Nha Trang conference.

He said EV-71 is the most toxic among intestinal viruses, ?capable of causing brain, neurological and respiration complications that lead to death...?

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Last update 08/06/2012 10:08:00 AM (GMT+7)


Nearly 1,600 infected with dengue fever, HFM disease in HCM City
VietNamNet Bridge ? The number of people infected with dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease in Ho Chi Minh City has been increasing.

The municipal Preventive Medicine Department reported that there were nearly 650 cases of dengue fever in May, up 27 percent compared to April and more than 900 cases of HFM disease, up 14 percent over the previous month. Infections occurred in most districts and precincts and are expected to rise in the coming rainy season, said the municipal healthcare watchdog.
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