Commonground
Senior Moderator
[emphasis is mine]
May 10, 2026 | 03:00 pm PT
Vietnam and Cambodia have taken preventive measures against hantavirus disease over a recent cruise ship outbreak, including health monitoring of passengers entering international airports.
Hanoi Department of Health has ordered stronger surveillance and prevention measures against Hanta virus disease following warnings from the Ministry of Health.
Under an urgent dispatch issued by the ministry's Administration of Disease Prevention on May 5, the municipal Health Department asked the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC Hanoi) to closely monitor global developments and promptly advise on appropriate response measures.
CDC Hanoi was instructed to strengthen health monitoring of passengers entering and transiting through Noi Bai International Airport to detect suspected cases early and ensure timely isolation and handling at the point of entry.
The center was also tasked with enhancing inspection and quarantine activities for vehicles and goods to identify potential carriers of hantavirus pathogens while continuing rodent monitoring and control at entry points in line with ministry guidelines. In addition, CDC Hanoi was asked to organize training for infectious disease control staff and medical quarantine officers in prevention measures and the use of personal protective equipment.
The health authorities also requested public and private hospitals across the city to review and prepare medicines, chemicals, biological products and medical supplies for diagnosis and treatment in case infections are detected.
Hospitals were urged to strengthen patient admission, early diagnosis, isolation and intensive treatment to minimize severe complications and fatalities, while strictly implementing infection prevention measures for patients and caregivers.
Medical facilities detecting confirmed or suspected hantavirus cases must immediately notify CDC Hanoi or local health stations to coordinate response activities.
Meanwhile, the People's Committees of communes and wards should direct local health stations to strengthen disease surveillance to promptly detect and isolate suspected cases, conduct treatment and implement containment measures to prevent community spread.
Local authorities were also requested to coordinate with medical facilities in conducting epidemiological investigations and collecting test samples from patients with severe acute respiratory infections of unknown causes or symptoms such as fever, haemorrhage and kidney failure suspected to be linked to hantavirus infection.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/v...airport-screening-for-hantavirus-5069565.html
May 10, 2026 | 03:00 pm PT
Vietnam and Cambodia have taken preventive measures against hantavirus disease over a recent cruise ship outbreak, including health monitoring of passengers entering international airports.
Hanoi Department of Health has ordered stronger surveillance and prevention measures against Hanta virus disease following warnings from the Ministry of Health.
Under an urgent dispatch issued by the ministry's Administration of Disease Prevention on May 5, the municipal Health Department asked the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC Hanoi) to closely monitor global developments and promptly advise on appropriate response measures.
CDC Hanoi was instructed to strengthen health monitoring of passengers entering and transiting through Noi Bai International Airport to detect suspected cases early and ensure timely isolation and handling at the point of entry.
The center was also tasked with enhancing inspection and quarantine activities for vehicles and goods to identify potential carriers of hantavirus pathogens while continuing rodent monitoring and control at entry points in line with ministry guidelines. In addition, CDC Hanoi was asked to organize training for infectious disease control staff and medical quarantine officers in prevention measures and the use of personal protective equipment.
The health authorities also requested public and private hospitals across the city to review and prepare medicines, chemicals, biological products and medical supplies for diagnosis and treatment in case infections are detected.
Hospitals were urged to strengthen patient admission, early diagnosis, isolation and intensive treatment to minimize severe complications and fatalities, while strictly implementing infection prevention measures for patients and caregivers.
Medical facilities detecting confirmed or suspected hantavirus cases must immediately notify CDC Hanoi or local health stations to coordinate response activities.
Meanwhile, the People's Committees of communes and wards should direct local health stations to strengthen disease surveillance to promptly detect and isolate suspected cases, conduct treatment and implement containment measures to prevent community spread.
Local authorities were also requested to coordinate with medical facilities in conducting epidemiological investigations and collecting test samples from patients with severe acute respiratory infections of unknown causes or symptoms such as fever, haemorrhage and kidney failure suspected to be linked to hantavirus infection.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/v...airport-screening-for-hantavirus-5069565.html