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(excerpt from .....<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD class=tintop_title vAlign=top align=left>SCI-TECH, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH IN BRIEF 9/9</TD></TR><TR><TD class=news_date vAlign=top align=left height=20>19:24' 09/09/2007 (GMT+7)
A course on emerging epidemics such as bird flu and foot-and-mouth disease was held for over 100 medical doctors as deans of epidemiology and contagious diseases departments from a number of provincial and municipal hospitals from September 4-5.
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Dr. Nguyen Tran Hien, Director of the Central Hygenic and Epidemiology Institute, said his agency has upraded what was a H5N1 lab into a regional centre that is now recognised by the World Health Organisation.
The US Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) has funded the establishment of fast-responding teams against emerging epidemics for 64 cities and provinces throughout the country.
From May to August 3, the country recorded seven cases of people contracting the H5N1 virus which resulted in four deaths, reported Head of the Preventive Medicine Department Nguyen Huy Nga at a meeting of the H5N1 control steering board on September 5.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/09/738867/
A course on emerging epidemics such as bird flu and foot-and-mouth disease was held for over 100 medical doctors as deans of epidemiology and contagious diseases departments from a number of provincial and municipal hospitals from September 4-5.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Dr. Nguyen Tran Hien, Director of the Central Hygenic and Epidemiology Institute, said his agency has upraded what was a H5N1 lab into a regional centre that is now recognised by the World Health Organisation.
The US Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) has funded the establishment of fast-responding teams against emerging epidemics for 64 cities and provinces throughout the country.
From May to August 3, the country recorded seven cases of people contracting the H5N1 virus which resulted in four deaths, reported Head of the Preventive Medicine Department Nguyen Huy Nga at a meeting of the H5N1 control steering board on September 5.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/09/738867/