Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Health/2011/2/89539/
Thursday ,Feb 10,2011, Posted at: 15:20(GMT+7)
Outbreak of scarlet fever and measles in North Vietnam
There is great public concern at the outbreak of scarlet fever and measles in Hanoi and the Northern provinces.
Not only children but also adults are susceptible to the infectious virus. Patients are already crowding the infection division of the National Tropical Disease Centre in Hanoi. According to the deputy director of the hospital, Nguyen Hong Ha, scarlet fever has occurred during the same time in previous years and children have been most vulnerable to the disease. This year however, the fever has prolonged for one month and showed no signs of abating.
Hundreds of adults have been hospitalized this year including serious and complicated cases of encephalitis, while toddlers are seen to suffer from respiratory inflammation.
After Tet (lunar New Year), more than 70 percent of the people hospitalized for examination and treatment suffered from influenza and scarlet fever.
Doctor Ha disclosed that the culprit behind the present scarlet fever spread was the rubella virus, a pathogenic agent of the rubella disease. It is transmitted from one person to another. A few scarlet fever cases were caused by drug allergies or streptococcus...
Thursday ,Feb 10,2011, Posted at: 15:20(GMT+7)
Outbreak of scarlet fever and measles in North Vietnam
There is great public concern at the outbreak of scarlet fever and measles in Hanoi and the Northern provinces.
Not only children but also adults are susceptible to the infectious virus. Patients are already crowding the infection division of the National Tropical Disease Centre in Hanoi. According to the deputy director of the hospital, Nguyen Hong Ha, scarlet fever has occurred during the same time in previous years and children have been most vulnerable to the disease. This year however, the fever has prolonged for one month and showed no signs of abating.
Hundreds of adults have been hospitalized this year including serious and complicated cases of encephalitis, while toddlers are seen to suffer from respiratory inflammation.
After Tet (lunar New Year), more than 70 percent of the people hospitalized for examination and treatment suffered from influenza and scarlet fever.
Doctor Ha disclosed that the culprit behind the present scarlet fever spread was the rubella virus, a pathogenic agent of the rubella disease. It is transmitted from one person to another. A few scarlet fever cases were caused by drug allergies or streptococcus...