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Vietnam health ministry warns of dengue fever outbreak

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HA NOI - The health ministry has warned residents to take measures to prevent contracting dengue fever during the next two months.

Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department Nguyen Van Binh warned people in the country's flood-hit central region to take extra precautions.

The ministry reports that there have been more than 78,000 dengue fever so far this year and 59 deaths caused by the disease.

More than 21,600 cases have been documented in the country's central region, a year-on-year increase of 167.9 per cent.

An average of 400 dengue fever cases are reported each week in HCM City.

Director of HCM City Pasteur Institute Tran Ngoc Huu said the wet season has created favourable living conditions for mosquitos to breed.

Nearly half of the city's 322 communes and wards have experienced dengue oubreaks during the past three months. - VNS

http://health.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20101012-241839.html
 
Re: Vietnam health ministry warns of dengue fever outbreak

Updated November, 06 2010 10:47:05 Email
Print Dengue fever cases rising in HCM City

HCM CITY ? There has been no reduction in the number of dengue fever cases in HCM City even after preventive medicine centres in districts were instructed to focus on preventive measures, said Le Truong Giang, deputy head of the city's Department of Health.

The city recorded 2,054 dengue fever cases last month, an increase of 23 per cent over September.

HCM City is the city with the highest number of dengue fever patients in the southern region, with 450 patients per week, Giang said yesterday at a meeting held to review measures taken to fight the disease last month.

At the Peadiatric Hospital No.2, more than 100 children with dengue fever are being treated currently, an increase of nearly 70 patients over the same period of last year.

A Health Department report also said that the numbers of children with the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) and respiratory diseases also increased last month.

Nearly 500 children were infected with the HFMD in October, an increase of 29 per cent over September, said Dr. Nguyen Dac Tho, deputy head of the city's Preventive Medicine Centre. Most of them were children under five years old, he said.

As many as 3,482 children were hospitalised with respiratory problems last month, Tho added.

Giang asked preventive medicine centres to take note of problems and step up preventive measures so that less number of children contract the diseases in the coming months. ? VNS

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Social-Isssues/205449/Dengue-fever-cases-rising-in-HCM-City.html
 
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