Vietnam - 16 yo pregnant, Kien Giang - 42nd death

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More severe H1N1 patients hospitalized

On October 11, Vietnam recorded a 16-year-old pregnant woman in Kien Giang dying from influenza H1N1. Experts to the period ca severe - including death - will be more.

3 / 11, pregnant woman (pregnant May 6th) in the ward, Vinh Quang, Rach Gia, Kien Giang province have expressed a fever, cough, runny nose, but not to the hospital immediately own treatment at home. After four days without support, that a higher fever, a lot of fatigue, patients new to Kien Giang General Hospital and was diagnosed with unexplained fever.

To date 8/11 the patients manifested respiratory distress, scientific Islamic power was transferred to antitrust. However, severe disease evolutions and pregnant woman to death on 9 / 11, before the test results positive for influenza H1N1.

So this is a second 42 deaths related to influenza H1N1 and is the pregnant woman 10.

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Re: Vietnam - 16 yo pregnant, Kien Giang - 42nd death

<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=thanh vAlign=top align=left>Pregnant woman dies of swine flu in delta</TD></TR><TR><TD class=tintop_text vAlign=top align=left>[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]A pregnant woman from the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, six months into her term, has become the 41st victim of swine flu, a health official said November 11.[/FONT]
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=Image>A doctor at HCMC?s Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital examines a patient of A/H1N1 flu</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>​

Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, chief of the Preventive Health and Environment Department, said at a meeting of the National Steering Board of Human Flu Prevention that the 16-year-old developed a fever, cough, and sore throat on November 3 and bought medicines to treat herself. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Four days later, when her condition worsened, she was taken to the province?s General Hospital where she died on November 9.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Tests carried out by the Ho Chi Minh City-based Pasteur Institute later confirmed she had swine flu. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Flu-related hospitalizations continue to occur nationwide, with 17 provinces so far reporting deaths.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the Central Institute of Hygiene Epidemiology, said the National Steering Board for Vaccination against H1N1 has decided to vaccinate 1.2 million women who are three or more months pregnant.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]According to a Pasteur Institute survey, 60 per cent of people with flu live in HCMC, half of them aged between 10 and 19.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The president of the institute, Tran Ngoc Huu, warned that the possibility of the H1N1 and H5N1 viruses combining is very high with winter approaching.[/FONT]
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Re: Vietnam - 16 yo pregnant, Kien Giang - 42nd death

On November 11, according to the report of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology / Pasteur, Vietnam has recorded more a case of influenza A/H1N1 death. It is 16 years old female patient, six months pregnant, in the ward, Vinh Quang, Rach Gia Ho Chi Minh City, Kien Giang province.


3 / 11, patients with fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose and own treatment at home four days without help. To 22h on 7 / 11, patients with high fever, tiredness should enter infectious Science - Hospital of Kien Giang.

To 22h on 8 / 11, patients with respiratory distress and was transferred to the Faculty of Islamic power and antitrust Diagnosis of pneumonia and respiratory failure suspected influenza A/H1N1 and active resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, use of Tamiflu and antibiotics , samples sent to the Pasteur Institute Ho Chi Minh City for testing. However, the patient's condition progressed more and more severe.

To 7h15 '9 / 11, patient death. On November 11, Pasteur Institute HCMC answer test results of patients positive for influenza A/H1N1.

Thus, our country has had 41 cases of death from influenza A/H1N1. Addition, there are 10,800 cases of influenza A/H1N1, which has 10,572 patients from the hospital and
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