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Source: http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Dengue-fever-becomes-serious/20097/105667.vov

Updated : 6:39 PM, 07/05/2009
Dengue fever becomes serious
In the first half of this year, nearly 27,000 cases of dengue fever were reported in Vietnam, 26 of which were fatal with most of those being children.

According to Dr Nguyen Huy Nga, Head of the Vietnam Medical Preventive Service, the dengue fever situation is becoming serious in Vietnam and will probably break out into an epidemic in some provinces and cities in the remaining months.

Meanwhile, 24 other countries in the Asia Pacific region are also facing the same serious situation, including some in southeast Asia like Malaysia, Laos and Cambodia. It is predicted that the number of deaths and cases of complications will continue to increase, affecting the health and economic status of the entire society.

The Vietnam Medical Preventive Service says the main causes of the outbreak are climate change, environmental pollution and high population density.

 

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Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2009/7/72284/

Tuesday ,Jul 07,2009, Posted at: 15:18(GMT+7)
HCM City grapples with dengue outbreaks

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment reported that 4,000 people have contracted dengue fever this year, 50 percent higher than last year, with outbreaks becoming wider and more severe.

Dr. Le Thi Thanh Thuy of Children?s Hospital No.2 said in the last two weeks her hospital has admitted many dengue patients, some seriously ill.

Dr.Vu Quang Vinh, the hospital?s deputy director for general planning, told SGGP there were 311 patients in June.

Children?s Hospital No.1 admits 20-30 cases every day.

Dr. Le Bich Lien, head of its Dengue Fever Department, fears patients do not get good treatment at the hospital due to a lack of beds: ?The 80 beds in the ward can?t cope with the number of patients which is always above 100. We had to have two or three children to a bed.?

Dr. Tran Van Ngoc, head of Pediatrics A at the Tropical Diseases Hospital, said his hospital is also getting a large number of adults with dengue.

Besides districts like Binh Thanh, 8, Binh Tan, and Binh Chanh, the disease has also spread to various wards in Thu Duc District like Binh Chieu, Hiep Binh Phuoc, and Hiep Binh Chanh.

But Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper has found that local preventive medical officials have yet to act to contain the outbreak.

When SGGP called Dr. Nguyen Duc Tho, deputy director of the HCMC Preventive Medicine Center, to inquire about measures needed to contain the outbreak, he refused to speak saying he is not authorized to talk to the media.

Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy director of the Hanoi Health Department, said an emergency meeting was held on July 7 to instruct local medical personnel on measures to contain dengue outbreaks in the capital.

Mr.Hanh told people to keep their surroundings hygiene, use mosquito nets, and not store water in open buckets and pots. At the first symptom of the fever, people should visit a doctor, he said.

This year Hanoi has recorded 510 cases, with most of the victims aged above 15, he added.

 

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Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/Health/2009/07/857159/

HCM City hospitals report rise in dengue fever cases
23:13' 08/07/2009 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge ? The number of dengue fever patients is on the rise in HCM City hospitals.

Dr Le Bich Lien, head of the HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No 1?s Dengue Fever Ward, said the hospital had admitted 20-30 dengue fever cases a day since the end of June.

"Most patients live in HCM City and several have symptoms of a serious illness when being admitted to the hospital," Lien said.

The hospital?s dengue fever ward has only 80 beds, but last week it provided treatment for more than 100 patients.

HCM City had more than 4,000 dengue fever cases in the first half of the year, an increase of 50 per cent against the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Health?s Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment.

Tran Van Ngoc, head of the HCM City Tropical Diseases Hospital?s Paediatrics Ward A, said the number of children with dengue fever had increased rapidly in the past few weeks.

The HCM City Tropical Diseases Hospital on Monday had 50 dengue fever child patients, and admitted 30 dengue fever adult patients last week.

Rainy days over the last few weeks have created ideal conditions for the development of larvae and mosquitoes which carry and transmit the dengue fever virus, in the city?s districts, especially in outlying districts.

Phan Van Nghiem, head of the HCM City Health Department?s Medical Professional Office, said unclean residential areas contributed to the problem.

Nghiem told the public to keep the surroundings of their houses clean and regularly clean tools and containers of water.

The city leads the country?s 15 cities and provinces hardest hit by dengue fever this year.

The Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment has set up four teams to monitor the task of combating dengue fever in those localities since early this month. The inspection will last until Friday.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

 

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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=50623

Dengue kills one more, nation warned outbreaks possible


Dengue fever killed another child in Soc Trang Province Thursday as health officials warned poor preparation will increase chances of outbreaks later this year.

The nine-year-old died at the province?s general hospital, said Truong Hoai Phong, deputy director of the Soc Trang Health Department.

Dengue fever has claimed six lives in the province so far this year, all of them children. The fever killed only two residents last year.

Soc Trang now stands second after Kien Giang in the list of dengue fever infections among the Mekong Delta provinces, with more than 2,400 people infected this year.

The Delta region is more susceptible to outbreaks because it has many waterways and residents often store their water in large open containers, increasing mosquito populations that transmit the dengue virus.

More than 2,500 people in Kien Giang Province have contracted dengue fever so far, six of whom have died, Tuoi Tre reported Wednesday, citing Nguyen Van Hai, deputy director of the province?s preventive health center.

Meanwhile, the number of patients in neighboring An Giang Province has increased by more than 83 percent year-on-year to 780.

Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Preventive Health and Environment Department under the Health Ministry, told Thanh Nien Thursday that ?the number of complications and deaths caused by the fever will rise further.?

Preventive health centers in the Delta provinces have forecast that dengue fever will develop ?most complicatedly? in September.

Yet Nga said some localities have not made adequate preparations to prevent the vector-borne viral infectious disease. ?They only set the budget for preventing the fever after someone has succumbed to it.?

Nga warned that the dengue fever situation is already getting complicated and could lead to severe outbreaks from September onwards, adding that many cities and provinces have reported infections twice or triple that of last year.

All four known strains of the dengue virus have been detected in Vietnam and a patient could contract more than one type, making the sickness more difficult to diagnose, he said.

The Health Ministry has sent inspectors to HCMC and provinces that reported increases in dengue fever cases this year including southern coastal Ba RiaVung Tau, south-central Binh Dinh and Kien Giang, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long in the Mekong Delta.

Inspections have found that the localities are still late and ineffective in destroying vectors that cause the disease, Nga said.

Hanoi has reported more dengue fever patients in recent weeks, raising its tally in the year?s first half to 343, almost three times the corresponding figure last year, with 91 percent of them above 15 years of age.

The concentration of mosquitoes detected at many places has exceeded the level that can cause outbreaks, according to the city Health Department.

Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy director of the department, said most of the patients are residents living in neighborhoods with poor hygiene.

The HCMC Health Department held a meeting Thursday to review the fever situation in the city. It requested district health officials to check water containers in the area and destroy all hatches of mosquito larvae.

Around 200-250 dengue fever patients have visited city hospitals every week, the meeting heard.

Dr. Phan Van Nghiem of the city health department said that number was not a record high, compared to 600-800 patients a week last year, but the number of deaths was still high ? five in the city so far this year compared to 12 last year and 13 in 2007.

The department has asked the city government to implement a clean-up campaign next month, especially in the outlying districts of Binh Chanh, Tan Binh, Tan Phu and Thu Duc, to prevent dengue fever and other diseases.

Around 25,770 people have contracted dengue fever in Vietnam in the first half of this year, 26 percent more than the same period last year while the number of deaths has jumped by 24 percent to 26, most of them children.

Source: TN, TT

 

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Source: http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01COM110709

Dengue fever cases up, but lack of funding threatens eradication

(11-07-2009)

Dengue fever is on the rise. Head of the Health Ministry?s Preventive Medicine and Environment Department Nguyen Huy Nga discussed the issue with Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam (Viet Nam Economic Times).

A recent Ministry of Health (MoH) report showed that some localities recorded an increase of more than 300 per cent in dengue fever cases compared to 2008. Can you comment?

The majority of these localities did not report any cases of dengue fever last year, or recorded only a very small number of cases. For example, if a province reported 10 cases of dengue fever in 2008 and then 300 in 2009, the increased percentage would be very large.

That said, the rapid increase in the number of patients suffering from the disease was attributed to inefficient preventive measures at the local level.

Could you give the name of a specific province that has yet to efficiently prevented the disease?

Central Phu Yen Province can be taken as a specific example of a locality that lacked strict controls and supervision over sterilisation efforts. When more cases of the disease were being reported in the province, MoH issued directives for the prevention of further spread of the disease but local authorities were slow to adopt them. MoH will send a mission to the province this week to work with the People?s Committee on this issue.

The disease appears every year and often concentrates in the southern region. Can you comment?

Dengue fever appears not only in Viet Nam but other countries around the world. Outbreaks of the disease have increased rapidly in neighbouring countries such as Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia.

In Viet Nam, dengue fever "hot spots" have continued to appear in the south this year, particularly in Phu Yen, Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai, Ninh Thuan, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Can Tho, Hau Giang, Kien Giang and HCM City.

The disease breaks out heavily in the south because of the region?s environmental conditions such as climate change and tides, which create a favourable environment for breeding mosquitoes, the main carriers of the disease.

In the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region, people often store water in open containers for daily use, creating favourable living conditions for mosquitoes.

Does the lack of finances hinder activities against locality level prevention and control of dengue fever?

The Government Office reported that the Prime Minister has signed a decision regarding the national dengue fever prevention and control programme budget.

How will this budget be used?

A budget plan was mapped out upon programme approval. Funds will be used to purchase sterilisation chemicals and for training courses at the department level.

A portion of the budget will be earmarked for localities to implement activities such as buying sterilisation medicine and equipment.

Do you think the budget will help curb the spread of the disease?

I hope so. However, the real demand for disease prevention measures and controls are often 20 times higher than the approved amount allows.

Doesn?t it mean that this is the reason for the heavier outbreak of the disease and the increased number of patients?

Many problems remain with prevention and control work. The Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment warns that the prevention and control work requires the participation of the entire population.

MoH started to sterilise high risk areas in June rather than July as in previous years.

However, sterilisation is only effective at killing adult mosquitoes. Mosquitoes still in the pupa stage were not killed.

Therefore, not only MoH but local households need to purchase equipment and chemicals to kill the pupa in the wet areas around their homes and they should work regularly to prevent an outbreak of the disease. ? VNS

INSET:
$4.1m to fight dengue fever

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a
budget allocation of VND70 billion (US$4.1 million) for dengue fever prevention in the country, an official has said.
The funds, to be given to the Health Ministry?s Preventive Medicine and Environment Department, will be handed to provincial departments, who will be responsible for spraying local homes to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes that carry the disease.
Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the department, said there had been nearly 25,700 dengue fever cases nationwide during the first half of the year, up 26 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Twenty-six people have died from the disease since January, an increase of 24 per cent year-on-year.
The highest increases occurred in the south, particularly in HCM City and Kien Giang, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long and Soc Trang provinces.
The southern region, having many rivers and canals, is a prime breeding ground for mosquitoes. ? VNS

 

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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=51708

Last Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:32:34 Vietnam (GMT+07)

Dengue patient dies under home treatment
A woman in the Binh Dinh Province town of Quy Nhon died of dengue fever on the way to hospital Wednesday after undergoing days of treatment at home.

L.T.Q., an 18-year-old resident of Nhon Phu Ward, vomited blood before being sent to the hospital in the central province.

She had been given a fluid transfusion and injection at home on Tuesday.

Last Saturday, Q. had fatigue and fever but her family did not bring her to see a doctor despite the fact that local government officials urged her to do so.

Q?s was the second dengue-related death in the town in just over two weeks.

Quy Nhon has reported nearly 400 dengue cases recently.

Reported by Phi Hung

 

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Source: http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Dengue-fever-breaks-out-in-Hanoi/20098/107002.vov

Updated : 2:00 PM, 08/19/2009
Dengue fever breaks out in Hanoi

Since early this month, the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases has received between 30-40 patients of dengue fever a day, 90 percent of whom came from inner-city areas.

The Head of the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Nguyen Hong Ha, said on August 18 that the dengue fever has reached its peak along with A/H1N1 super flu.

Most patients admitted to hospital are in a serious condition and 62 percent of them are pupils and students in the age of 16-30. The spread of the disease among them is attributed to their dark and stuffy lodgings swarming with mosquitoes.

 

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Vietnam: Hanoi: Services dengue entering peak

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Service hemorrhage in Hanoi is the peak period but most nearly "sink nghim" A/H1N1 disease. Over the same period last year, number of dengue infected Hanoi's increased 10 times.

Students, students infected sharply increase
According to Mr. Do Le Huan, Director of Preventive Medical Center of Hanoi this year, dengue fever progress to a month earlier compared to the year. "This is the peak time of service. Stress period lasted from July to the end of September, "Mr. Head said.
In July and August, the number of dengue patients new Hanoi constitute 80% of patients from the first year. Also at the Institute of infectious diseases and Tropical Countries, calculated from January 1/2009 to May 7/2009 nearly 500 people infected with dengue fever. In particular, number of infected than three times higher in June than in May. Number of questions in July than two times higher than in June.

From early August, number of infected dengue fever continue to rise strongly. Nguyen Hong Ha, the Institute for infectious diseases and Tropical Country, said: "Every day an average of nearly 40 to ca dengue hospitalized.

According to Mr Ha, what is worrying many in ca admission status had severe complications due to early detection and treatment. Among them, subjects students, accounting for most students.

"August, students flock to Hanoi admission in large numbers, often rent for four humid, have bad habits when sleep is not infected desktop, create conditions for developing hemorrhagic fever," he Ha explain.

According to statistics of the Department of Health, Hanoi, by the end on 20 / 8, 100% of districts of the city had a hemorrhage, the total number of patients on 2100 persons, mostly concentrated in the area inner city and where speed urbanization strong (as Tu Liem, Thanh Tri).

A chimney flu, dengue fever is ignored?
In recent time, both people and mass media focus on evolutions translated influenza A/H1N1 and almost no "closed" to translate hemorrhage, although this is a time translation outbreak most powerful.

As noted at the Institute of infectious diseases and Tropical Countries, there are many patients who did not know services are raging dengue fever in the inner city and services are top at this time.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa, dengue patients from Hoang Mai district since honesty: "I only heard but are translated influenza and dengue fever when I know there is much to the people suffer."

Mr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Director of Department of Preventive Health and Environment (Ministry of Health) said: "Compared to the same period last year, number of infected dengue nationwide has increased by 25%, death toll up 24 %. Southern provinces where there are still many patients with dengue fever and one had five deaths.

He emphasized Russia: "The local office eventually drain flu, people infected with influenza but do not worry be ignored as dengue fever. People need to actively preserve the living environment clean, safe service conditions without development ".

Signs identifying dengue
Patients with sudden high fever (39-40 degrees) with the symptoms: fatigue, anorexia, myalgia, skin rash or congestive after 2-3 days.
Patients with dengue fever if not treated promptly can cause bleeding organs, vascular access, more blood loss, risk of death is very high.

 

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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=52062


Last Updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 13:23:50 Vietnam (GMT+07)

Dengue fever blitzes Hanoi


Between 200 and 300 new cases of dengue fever are being diagnosed every week in Hanoi, the city?s health department announced on Tuesday.

Since the beginning of this year, 2,500 cases of the mosquito-borne illness have been recorded in the nation?s capital, about ten times higher than the same period last year and the worst figure in years.

On the same day, 69 people nationwide tested positive for the influenza A (H1N1) virus, raising Vietnam?s tally to 2,142.

These included 38 new cases in Ho Chi Minh City, where the health department is closely monitoring nine schools,

Source: Thanh Nien, Tuoi Tre

 

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Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2009/9/74231/

Rainy season heralds dengue fever peak: Ministry

With rainy weather approaching, dengue fever is entering its peak season, the Ministry of Health said September 14.

Over 44,571 people have been infected this year, with 37 fatalities, nearly 30 percent higher than in the same period last year.

Medical workers are worried about the large number of patients in the capital Hanoi.

Eleven people in the Mekong delta provinces of Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, and Tra Vinh died of the disease, with Soc Trang along accounting for deaths out of more than 4,000 people affected.

Dr. Le Minh Thuan, director of the Dam Doi- Ca Mau Medical Center in the southern province of Ca Mau, said in the last eight months, hospitals and health centers have treated nearly 450 cases of whom 122 were seriously affected.
By staff writers - Translated by Uyen Phuon

 

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Source: http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Dengue-fever-on-rise-in-Hanoi/20099/107867.vov

Updated : 10:20 AM, 09/16/2009
Dengue fever on rise in Hanoi

The number of dengue fever cases has risen sharply in northern Vietnam, especially in Hanoi, with 500-700 cases reported each week, a 10- to 12-fold rise year on year, said Nguyen Huy Nga, Head of the Health Ministry?s Preventive Health and Environment Department.
At present, there are more than 57,000 patients, an annual increase of approximately 13 percent, 44 of whom have died, down 10 percent from last year, he added.

Hanoi, which declared itself free of the epidemic for many years, has been hit hard by the mosquito-caused disease due to a surge in construction activity and population density, Mr Nga told VNA.

The ministry is continuing to spray chemicals to kill the mosquitoes and mosquito larva, and increase public awareness to prevent and control dengue fever and clean up the environment.

Dengue is spreading in many countries worldwide but there is currently no inoculation for the disease, according to the World Health Organization.

 

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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=52495

Last Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:22:59 Vietnam (GMT+07)

Hanoi usurps Mekong Delta as dengue hot spot

The highest concentration of Dengue Fever cases has moved north with Hanoi as Vietnam?s hardest-hit area, after the Mekong Delta had accounted for 80-90 percent of all cases 1998-2007, said a health official.

Hanoi Department of Health on September 1 reported that nearly 3,000 people have had dengue over the first eight months in the capital, 12 times higher than the same period of last year, Vu Sinh Nam, deputy director general of the Preventive Health and Environment Department told Thanh Nien in a recent interview.

Vietnam has historically recorded major jumps in the number of dengue cases every ten years, he said.

?Our country has recorded big dengue outbreaks in 1987, 1998 and now 2009,?

Only between 5-10 percent of local people have antibodies against dengue fever in the north, Nam said, compared to 70-85 percent in the south.

This, together with the Hanoi?s failure to kill mosquito larvae thoroughly, can explain dengue?s abnormal increase this year in Hanoi, according to the official, denying that a new strain of dengue virus was the cause of the outbreaks.

?At the moments scientific evidence has yet to prove a change in the virus strain.?

However, the health ministry is tracing the appearance of another mosquito-borne virus, Chikungunya, which is suspected of causing an illness with symptoms similar to dengue fever in many patients, Nam said.

The Chikungunya virus ? Aedes albopictus ? is familiar to Vietnamese health workers and can be killed, he said, advising people not to be too worried.

?No strange mosquito has been detected so far.?

Vaccines against dengue fever are now under experiment, Nam said, adding that new dengue tests that confirm finding in three days as opposed to the current five have been proposed.

Southern metro awaits dengue peak

While the number of dengue patients this year hasn?t increased much from last year in Ho Chi Minh City, experts said the peak had yet to come.

?The dengue fever outbreak hasn?t peaked, but will start increasing critically later this month,? said Nguyen Dac Tho, vice director of the HCMC Preventive Health Department.

Dr. Le Bich Lien, head of the Dengue Fever Department at the city?s Children?s Hospital No.1, also warned that the dengue attack would get stronger and last till December.

Since the beginning of the year, 1,720 people have been admitted to hospitals with dengue, according to official statistics from the local health sector.

Eight of them have died, double last year?s toll, the statistics showed.

In the meantime, hand-foot-and-mouth disease is also spreading in Ho Chi Minh City, local authorities said.Some 3,000 children in Vietnam caught the disease last year and at least 10 died.

Children Hospital No.1, for example, reported on Friday that 60 patients were under treatment for the disease, which is caused by the enterovirus 17, with fever, blisters, mouth ulcers and rashes.

Dr. Truong Huu Khanh from the hospital said nearly 90 percent of the children, mainly from other provinces, were admitted to the hospital in already serious condition.

?A difficulty at the moment is that people easily confuse influenza A (H1N1), dengue fever and hand-foot-and-mouth disease,? Khanh said.

Reported by Lien Chau ? Thanh Tung

 

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Source: http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Vietnam-has-44-fatal-cases-of-dengue-fever/20099/108189.vov

Updated : 12:12 PM, 09/25/2009
Vietnam has 44 fatal cases of dengue fever

By the middle of September Vietnam had seen nearly 58,000 cases of dengue fever, including 44 fatal cases, according to a report from the Ministry of Health.

The number of patients increased by eight times in the northern region and doubled in the central and central highland regions.

In Hanoi, in the past nine months, there were more than 6,000 cases of dengue fever, half of them recorded in August alone. The prevention work faces a number of difficulties due to a surge in the number of patients and the spread of A/H1N1 flu.

Experts say that the epidemic in Hanoi peaked in August.

 

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Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=52671

Last Updated: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:38:53 Vietnam (GMT+07)

A man infected with H1N1 died in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, just one day after Vietnam recorded its tenth death related to the flu, a representative from a local hospital told Thanh Nien.

The 30-year-old patient from Binh Thanh District was admitted to Gia Dinh People Hospital on Monday night with a fever, cough and sore throat, according to the representative, noting that he was given treatment with Tamiflu without waiting to take an influenza A (H1N1) virus test.

His condition quickly worsened and progressed to respiratory failure before he died at 5 p.m. on Thursday, the hospital said.

The patient, who was confirmed to have had swine flu later, had paralyzed legs and was obese, according to the hospital.

On the same day the Ministry of Health reported another 203 H1N1 cases in Vietnam, increasing the country?s tally to 7,839 since the disease was first detected here in May.

Eleven have died of the disease, with the first two cases in August and nine this month alone.

In the meantime, dengue fever is plaguing Hanoi with 6,507 patients registered since the beginning of the year ? 15 times more than the same period last year, the city?s Department of Health reported on the same day.

No dengue fatalities have been recorded so far.

Overall, more than 57,000 dengue cases have been reported nationwide this year, an increase of 13-percent year-on-year.

Source: Thanh Nien, Tuoi Tre

 

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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/12/content_12216000.htm

Dengue fever kills 30 in Vietnam's Mekong Delta provinces
www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-12 13:25:00

HANOI, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Dengue fever kills 30 in the Mekong Delta provinces of Vietnam in the first nine months of this year, local newspaper the Pioneer reported Monday.

In this period, 32,000 cases of dengue fever were reported in the Mekong Delta provinces, said the newspaper.

Among the provinces, Kien Giang has the highest number of dengue fever cases with 4,500. Soc Trang came second with 4,340 people infected with the disease. A total of 11 deaths of dengue fever were reported in the two provinces, according to the newspaper.

Weather conditions and poor awareness of disease prevention were blamed for the spread of dengue fever in the Mekong Delta provinces, according to the newspaper.
Editor: Xiong Tong

 

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Source: http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01HEA171009

Dengue fever cycle peaks, but forecast to decline next month

(17-10-2009)

A doctor at Bach Mai Hospital checks a dengue fever patient. The fever is said to have reached a 10-year peak and to stay at that level until the end of November. ? VNA/VNS Photo Huu Oai

HA NOI ? Dengue fever is expected to have reached a 10-year peak and to stay at that level until the end of November, according to Ha Noi Preventive Medicine Centre spokeswoman Nguyen Nhat Cam.

The epidemic often had a cycle of 3-5 years or 5-10 years, said Cam, who is head of the centre?s Infectious Diseases Control Department.

The fever broke out on a large scale in 1998, thus this year was the peak of cycle, he said.

In July, 783 people were hospitalised with dengue fever. Since early September, the number of cases has topped 2,800, 14.5 times higher than the same period last year.

Cam said many people were still not co-operating in the prevention and treatment to control the epidemic.

"They don?t let health-care staff enter and spray anti-mosquito chemicals because they are afraid it will harm their health," she said.

"In fact, these chemicals do not have a long-term effect and only kill mosquitoes carrying the fever virus to avoid the epidemic spreading," Cam said.

National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology director Nguyen Tran Hien said those who were affected could suffer a relapse in the same epidemic season.

"It can even get more serious if one relapses because of getting another type of dengue fever virus," he said.

He advised patients to watch complication symptoms from the fourth to the seventh day after getting the fever, including tiredness, vomiting, stomach ache, difficulty in breathing and hypodermic (beneath the skin) bleeding.

If these symptoms occur, patients should definitely see a doctor.

Hien called on the public to raise their awareness of dengue fever as a preventive measure. ? VNS

 

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Translation Vietnamese-English

Family medicine chest specialist advice

Many patients with hemorrhagic fever with severe complications

(October 17, 2009 19:10:20)

Seeing with fever, she Purchasing drugs after 3 days of drinking, but that still does not help It found urinating blood, notes appear under the skin rash.
Ms. Thu severe hemorrhagic fever, rapid platelet reduction may be cerebral hemorrhage and emergency communications platelets.

Doctor Chu Thi Du, deputy director of Thanh Nhan Hospital says that her case is not rare in the Sun Service dengue fever today. Previously, on 6 / 10, the hospital also receives a ca dengue type 2 Dangue level, under a reduced platelet (platelet ink is very low, normally under 50 had to transfer platelets). In addition, patients also gastrointestinal bleeding, liver damage, liver enzyme increases. Virus type directly into the liver, causing liver damage and thrombocytopenia.


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Patients with dengue fever is on the bed huddle treatment at Thanh Nhan Hospital (Hanoi). Photo: Nam Phuong.

Just a few days later, this facility must transfer the patients to Bach Mai Hospital emergency. This is a young male age 31, after 2 days of fever in hospital tests have found reduced platelet fast. Patients diagnosed as inflammation of the heart muscle. Reason may be the virus attack straight into the heart muscle.

According to Du, this year's dengue virus is highly pathogenic, type directly into the liver or other organs causing acute pancreatitis, increased liver enzyme, epidemic of lung membranes. The hospital received many patients with severe thrombocytopenia, shock, vascular collapse ...

"Just because there are many ca heavy, additional number of patients east (the bed is a pair 2-4), so hospitals are in a state of severe shortage of platelets. There are patients waiting 1-2 days is not primary requirements for transmission, "the doctor said Project.

For patients with severe bleeding, decreased platelet condition is very dangerous. If the patient is not transmitted in time can lead to cerebral hemorrhage, easy death. Thus, hospitals must be a priority for the transmission ca worse (or extremely low platelet reduce bleeding). These cases are not waiting, to mobilize the people donate blood.

Doctor Tran Duyen, Dean Hematology, Hospital Thanh Nhan also said that if in July, the hospital uses only 17 units of platelets, then to September, the hospital has about 55 units transmission.

Hospital Green Pon, number of hospitalization due to dengue fever is increasing very rapidly in recent times. As a doctor of the hospital, the number of visit to the hospital more complete collection site content very severe patients, also patients mild (low platelet reduction) for the right to treat at home.

Situation in Hospital Ha Dong is the same. Demand for platelets to treat dengue fever increased 4-5 times. Average per day, about 10-15 patients need a blood transfusion, platelets. The hospital also register for blood at the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion central but each time only took about 4 units of platelets and is only used for those cases too heavy.

Explanation about missing platelets, Ngo Manh Quan, Institute of Hematology and Blood Central said, as translated dengue outbreak this year should be strong demand for platelets of the hospital is very high. The amount of volunteer blood donors collected at least should not, be separated enough necessary (to get a unit of platelets 4 units of blood to mix, equivalent to 4 people for the same blood group).


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Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2009/10/75409/

Sunday ,Oct 25,2009, Posted at: 17:56(GMT+7)
Dengue fever sees nationwide resurgence

The Ministry of Health said October 24 that within the last month, 55 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam recorded 17,140 cases of dengue fever with 14 deaths.

Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has seen over 74,242 dengue cases, an increase of 16.8 percent over the same period last year. Of the total, 58 have died, six less compared to last year.

Hanoi has seen the highest increase of people infected in the country with 8,000 patients so far this year, 15 times higher than last year. It is also the capital city?s
worst dengue outbreak in the past 10 years.

By Trung Kien ? Translated by Hai Mien

 

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Hanoi: number of dengue fever has increased heavy

Doctor Nguyen Hong Ha: At present, the disease situation SXH in Hanoi is still on top of service, there are no signs of stopping. Per Day, Institute of Infectious Diseases and the National Tropical receiving approximately 600-700 patients examination, of which about 50% SXH. Both are 250 hospital patients SXH inpatient treatment, patients are mainly in Hanoi. By two simultaneous outbreaks of dangerous diseases strongly SXH and influenza A/H1N1 is always in the hospital should overload severe, patients should not agree to the hospital but ... sitting Institute.

Most patients are hospitalized in very serious condition, bleeding, shock, platelet lower, many people with no blood pressure and pulse, high risk of death.

- Actual treatment in hospital how, sir?

Translated from the first season to now, at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and the National Tropical recorded five cases of death from SXH, including patients in Hanoi. Currently, still a student (in Soc Son-Hanoi) SXH was very heavy, are located at the Faculty of Islamic treatment of the health institutes to ventilation and continuous blood transfusion, the risk of mortality is very high.

There is a characteristic that many patients SXH in service this year was lower platelets, many patients with lower platelet levels down very low, about 30000-40000. In some BV line below, as in patients with lower platelet low patients were hastily moved to BV State, on behalf up online. This is very dangerous because the patient can make forest landscape in worse condition due to timely treatment. Fact, not to lower the platelet transmission nor the media treating the platelet SXH. The specified communication platelets for patients by doctors to decide.

- Could you say more about the risk of transmission can occur when platelets?

Platelet transfusion to patients are many potential dangers to the health of patients. By transfer to a unit of platelets for patients who need blood to 4. Even the four blood groups are consistent with the blood of patients they can occur when the transmission shock condition, which can lead to death.

That's not to mention, platelets only live well in one day, if platelets stored longer before transmission (longest to date is the 6th) is not without ensuring that the quality, number of platelets in non-compensation enough but also can cause reactions by platelet preservative. In addition, the potential risk of infectious diseases via blood transfusion, such as HIV, AIDS, hepatitis B. ..

Therefore, platelet transfusion must be specified by the doctor. Usually the media only platelets in patients with abdominal drainage translated into, gastrointestinal bleeding or platelets less than 10,000, higher risk of death.

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Translation dengue Complicatedly

(VFEJ)-Day 5 / 11, Mr Ho Minh So, Director of Preventive Medical Center of Quang Ngai, said the province has more than 780 ca infected dengue fever (SXH), 2.5 times higher than same period last year, focused mainly in the districts of Binh Son, Son Tinh, Tu Nghia, Nghia Hanh, Mo Duc, Duc Pho and the city of Quang Ngai.



Treatment of children with dengue
Preventive Medical Center Tinh has implemented drastic measures for prevention and control services dengue (SXH) in key areas. Beyond the supply of drugs and chemicals, Telstra added 300 liters of chemicals kill mosquitoes and environmental treatment to supplement the level of local prevention services SXH.

In addition, the Center to strengthen health workers on the basis of the monitoring center to detect early cases for treatment in time; held injection soaked chemical and environmental remediation in the regular outbreak in key areas.
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Soc Trang: Services dengue in the province continue to arise Soc strong, average per week from 150 -170 people were hospitalized.
According to doctors Truong Hoai Phong, Deputy Director Health Soc Trang province, since early this year, the province has more than 5,000 infected ca SXH (the country's second largest city after Ho Chi Minh City), up over 17% of the same period last year.

Especially, there were seven cases of death (head of the country) during the 2008, Soc Trang, just a case of death by disease. We have not detected any patient has been infected with influenza A/H1N1 has SXH, however SXH number of degrees 2, Grade 3 to treat pretty much positive.
According to the health sector Soc Trang, in the near future, SXH continued progress will remain high and complicated development by being the rainy season.
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Ca Mau: Mau by the Department of Health, to 4 / 11, the province has infected 764 ca SXH, including one fatality in Tran Van Thoi District.
Before the disease situation SXH have tended to spread, Ca Mau Province People's Committee to direct the Department of Health to coordinate with the concerned branches and localities to focus the implementation of measures to prevent and control services.
Mau strengthen advocacy in various forms for people to take initiative, improving self awareness prevention and disease. Provincial Group and the Department of Education and Training launched the points of hygiene schools, houses, densely populated areas; bulk of the troops kill the mosquitoes and wheel throwing.
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