Vietnam: 2019 Measles

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Sixty measles cases reported in first week of 2019 in HCMC
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 13:00

The Preventive Medicine Department in Ho Chi Minh City said in the first week of 2019, HCMC reported 625 dengue cases, up 127 percent against the same period last year and 60 hand-foot-and mouth cases, a year-on-year increase of 88 percent.

Sixty measles cases reported in first week of 2019 in HCMC
Worse, the city recorded 60 cases of measles last week while there had been no measles cases in January 2018.

Head of the center?s Infectious Disease ward Dr. Le Hong Nga said that 24 districts have reported measles cases with most cases in districts 8, 12, Thu Duc, Binh Tan...

 

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More measles cases reported at HCM City, Hanoi hospitals
Last update 14:08 | 16/01/2019

VietNamNet Bridge ? Hospitals in HCM City and Hanoi are admitting dozens of patients with measles each week, many of them pregnant women and children.

The Department of Infectious and Nervous Diseases at the city?s Paediatrics Hospital No 1 is currently treating 35 children with measles. Since last December, it has been receiving 20 to 40 patients with measles per day.

Dr. Truong Huu Khanh, head of the department, said that most cases were serious with many complications, including four patients who were in intensive care.

Most of the admitted children had not been vaccinated against measles, and some of them had received only one injection instead of two as prescribed.

Paediatric Hospital No 2 is now treating 61 children with measles, including five who are on mechanical ventilation.

Adult cases

Besides children, adults and, especially pregnant women, are vulnerable to contracting measles.

Dr Huynh Thi Thuy Hoa of the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases said the hospital had been admitting 50 to 70 patients with measles each day in the last several weeks.

Currently, its doctors are treating 67 patients with measles, including 38 children.

"The number of measles cases has increased dramatically since last September," Hoa said...

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Measles outbreak burdens major Saigon hospital
By Le Phuong January 15, 2019 | 08:41 pm GMT+7
One Saigon hospital is treating 60 to 70 measles patients a day, 50 times higher, year-on-year.

The number of measles patients admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Saigon, one of the city?s top public hospitals, has been rapidly increasing within the last three months, said Huynh Thi Thuy Hoa, head of the hospital?s General Medicine Department A. From October to December last year, the number of measles hospitalizations increased from 76 to 270 cases, she added.

"The hospital is currently treating 65 measles cases, in which over half are children and pregnant women. The current number of measles patients doubled from last month?s and is 50 times higher compared to January last year," said Hoa.

The high number of patients has overloaded the department, which has only 55 beds for in-patients, she added...

 

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Hanoi records 114 cases of measles so far this year
VNA Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 15:48:00


Hanoi (VNA) - A total of 114 cases of measles were recorded in the capital city of Hanoi since the start of 2019, the municipal Health Department reported.

The city detected 91 dengue cases, 59 hand-foot-mouth infections and 21 whooping cough patients. No deaths were recorded from these diseases.

Hoang Duc Hanh, vice director of the department, said the situation of diseases during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday was under control...

 

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Fifty six cities, provinces report measles
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 21:09
Of over 18,078 cases of rash in 56 cities and provinces countrywide, around 3,000 cases are positive for measles virus, said the Ministry of Health yesterday.

Noticeably, measles cases have not trended downward in several localities. Most of measles patients are living in mountainous and distant districts and in cities with many industrial parks and large population. The culprit pointed out by medical experts is low immunization coverage and peak season of the disease.

Due to complicated development of the disease, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has requested local administrations to enhance measures against it including raising immunization coverage to 95 percent; preparing expense for inoculation activities and closely monitoring measles cases in the jurisdiction to isolate infected cases.

The Ho Chi Minh City Preventive Medicine Center announced rise in measles, hand-foot-and mouth and dengue cases compared to same period last year. These diseases have shown no sign of abating.

Since the beginning of the year, the city reported 9,048 dengue cases whereas it was 2,547 cases last year or a year-on-year increase of 255 percent. Worse, two dengue ?related deaths were reported in districts Tan Phu and Cu Chi...