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Vietnam - "Dramatic increase" in meningitis cases in children under 2 - Ho Chi Minh City

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Ho Chi Minh City: The child with meningitis increases
Thanh Tam Update Date 07/12/2014 20:02

In Ho Chi Minh City, in recognition of VTV correspondent, is the dramatic increase in children under 2 years of age suffering from meningitis.
At Children's Hospital 1, the incidence of this serious disease nearly half compared with this time last year, between 35-40 cases in which multiple cases detected late sequelae heavy breathing machine, deep coma.

According to doctors, this is an appropriate time to disease development in the South are due from the hot to the cold of the season. Families with young children should pay attention to children not infected, close monitoring of symptoms of fever, coughing, bronchitis like normal.

Meningitis is related to pneumococcal, as well as the causes of the three diseases are pneumonia, sepsis, otitis media. Some countries have vaccine pneumococcal infections Vietnam but no vaccine for children under 2 years of age.

http://vtv.vn/trong-nuoc/tphcm-tre-mac-benh-viem-mang-nao-gia-tang-20141207162611409.htm
 
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