Southern Vietnam in the grip of brain diseases
Southern Vietnam has reported 164 cases of acute encephalitis, a severe brain inflammation, since the beginning this year, and 21 deaths, a Ho Chi Minh City expert said Friday.
At a training course on ?monitoring, diagnosing, treating and preventing meningitis, acute encephalitis and enterovirus-borne diseases?, doctor Nguyen Thi Kim Tien from the Pasteur Institute also said meningitis, another kind of brain inflammation, hit Kien Giang province the worst with many victims dying within a day of hospitalization.
Over 80 people had been infected and 16 killed.
Of 630 patients admitted to the city Paediatric Hospital No 1 for hand-foot-mouth disease, over 20 percent had also suffered from acute encephalitis, she said further.
Symptoms in milder cases of encephalitis include fever, headache, poor appetite, and loss of energy. Severe cases include seizures, hallucinations, and coma, leading even to death.
Meningitis is a waterborne inflammation of the brain membrane caused by a viral or bacterial infection.
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Southern Vietnam has reported 164 cases of acute encephalitis, a severe brain inflammation, since the beginning this year, and 21 deaths, a Ho Chi Minh City expert said Friday.
At a training course on ?monitoring, diagnosing, treating and preventing meningitis, acute encephalitis and enterovirus-borne diseases?, doctor Nguyen Thi Kim Tien from the Pasteur Institute also said meningitis, another kind of brain inflammation, hit Kien Giang province the worst with many victims dying within a day of hospitalization.
Over 80 people had been infected and 16 killed.
Of 630 patients admitted to the city Paediatric Hospital No 1 for hand-foot-mouth disease, over 20 percent had also suffered from acute encephalitis, she said further.
Symptoms in milder cases of encephalitis include fever, headache, poor appetite, and loss of energy. Severe cases include seizures, hallucinations, and coma, leading even to death.
Meningitis is a waterborne inflammation of the brain membrane caused by a viral or bacterial infection.
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