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    * U.S. citizens continue to help the Hurricane Flood

    (TNO) A project identifying agents that may be related to the process of virus spread from animals to humans will be implemented by the Central Office of Prevention and Control Diseases United States (CDC) in Vietnam Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, CDC said today (October 22).

    Accordingly, the experts of veterinary epidemiology to the CDC technical assistance for HPAI Prevention and Control Program, particularly influenza A/H1N1 and H5N1, the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Central, the National Center for Diagnosis veterinary

    During the program, health staff and veterinary communal will conduct our research, sampling of cases have been confirmed infected with influenza A/H1N1 living area next to the poultry, livestock. Product samples are then sent to analysis to determine which groups of people and animals at risk of infection high, tracking groups of animals exposed to and learn the process causes genetic risk variants the virus.

    The project will identify cases of influenza who lives next to the area of cattle and poultry. The same time learn the methods flu virus spread from animals to humans and vice versa.

    So far, in Vietnam there were more than 10,000 people infected with influenza A/H1N1, most were discharge, 25 cases of death, nearly 300 people being treated and the control of infections in humans remains possible evolutions.

    * On October 22, the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam said, through the Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. government will provide $ 150,000 for the organization Save the Children to support the victims of Hurricane Ketsana ( typhoon No. 9) - storms landed in central VN last September by causing damage to many people here.

    Previously, the U.S. government also has emergency help people in the typhoon zone VN two waves with the amount totaling $ 600,000.

    Disbursed through the Disaster Assistance Office of Foreign USAID (OFDA), the amount of aid this will allow Save the Children distribute hygiene kits and household appliances such as blankets, water tanks , warm water, cooking pots, anti-mosquito screen, soap for nearly 35,000 this week.

    Next week, Save the Children will begin to implement the storm recovery operations, provide livelihood support to families, helping them to restore agricultural production, to overcome losses of livestock, plant planting and production tool ...


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    Re: U.S. support VN monitoring agents influenza virus transmission from animals to humans

    More US funding for virus research in Vietnam
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    The US government has put another US$100,000 toward researching the transmission of influenza viruses from animals to humans in Vietnam, according to a recent press release.
    Under the program, physicians and epidemiologists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Vietnam?s health and agricultural ministries will help local health workers to identify those infected with the H1 N1 influenza virus, or swine flu, in 2009 who lived in close proximity to pigs and poultry. Samples from the people and animals will be collected for laboratory analysis, the results of which will help scientists determine the human and animal groups at risk of transmission.
    This Animal-Human Interface initiative is part of CDC?s Influenza Program in which CDC professionals have been working with Vietnamese partners for the last several years.
    As of December 3, Vietnam has reported 46 confirmed human deaths due to H1 N1, or Influenza A.
    Some 112 people in Vietnam have been infected with H5N1, or bird flu, resulting in 57 deaths since the virus appeared here in 2003.
    Source: Thanh Nien
    http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy...8&newsid=54203

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