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Vietnam: Strange disease emerges in southern province

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

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Strange disease emerges in southern province

11/12/2007 ()

VietNamNet Bridge ? Residents of Hamlet 2 in Phuoc Hung commune in the southern province of An Giang are now faced with a strange disease; symptoms include contorted mouth, glassy eyes and mild paralysis.

The first case was reported on December 5. The disease has quickly spread in Phuoc Hung and neighbouring communes.

By December 10, 34 patients aged between six months and 46 years old were hospitalised at An Phu District General Hospital.

Doctor Phan Van Dien Phuong, Deputy Director of An Phu District General Hospital said clinical symptoms are similar to Japanese encephalitis but tests have come up negative.

More than 100 primary students in An Phu district have stayed home from school for several days.

Doctors from central hospitals and scientists will visit An Phu to do research on the mysterious ailment.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2007/12/759092/
 
Mystery fever in Vietnam

Mystery fever in Vietnam

Central province denies girl?s death caused by mystery fever
24/11/08

Dr Phan Thi Ninh, deputy director of Ha Tinh Province?s Department of Health, yesterday dismissed rumors that Le Thi Hong, 11, of Cam Xuyen District, died of the mystery fever that has affected many people.

She said the girl died of brain inflammation. But she was admitted to hospital with high temperature, breathing difficulties, and convulsions last Thursday.

Five other children were hospitalized with the same symptoms as Hong.

Hong?s death has set off rumors of many deaths and hospitalizations in Cam Loc, her commune.

The department has entrusted the province?s Medical Contingency Center with investigation the case, Dr. Ninh said.

The five children have recovered and would be discharged this week, she said.

The department is set to have a meeting with local authorities to discover the cause of the fever.

VietnamNet

Comment: Cam Loc has seen bird flu in the past.
 
Re: Vietnam: Strange disease emerges in southern province

Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/11/815889/

Health Ministry denies appearance of acmong virus
15:41' 28/11/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge ? A senior official from the Health Ministry on Thursday confirmed that the ministry does not have any information about the discovery of new type of virus that causes acute encephalitis in Vietnam.

Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Chief of the Preventive Health and Environment Agency under the Ministry of Health, on Thursday, said the Agency did not receive any official report about the Central Epidemiology Institute?s discovery of a new type of virus that cause acute encephalitis in the northern province of Bac Giang.

It was recently rumored that the Central Epidemiology Institute found out a strange virus, which was detected for the first time in Vietnam that would cause acute encephalitis with a high fatal rate. This type of virus is named Acmong (nightmare).

According to Dr. Nga, the discovery and recognition of a new virus type must obey regulations and must be recognized by scientific councils and international-standard laboratories.

The official said he was surprised about the above news and denied the information that a new type of virus causing acute encephalitis has appeared in Vietnam.

(Source: GD&XH)
 
Re: Mystery fever in Vietnam

Re: Mystery fever in Vietnam

Health Ministry denies appearance of acmong virus
15:41' 28/11/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge ? A senior official from the Health Ministry on Thursday confirmed that the ministry does not have any information about the discovery of new type of virus that causes acute encephalitis in Vietnam.

Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Chief of the Preventive Health and Environment Agency under the Ministry of Health, on Thursday, said the Agency did not receive any official report about the Central Epidemiology Institute?s discovery of a new type of virus that cause acute encephalitis in the northern province of Bac Giang.

It was recently rumored that the Central Epidemiology Institute found out a strange virus, which was detected for the first time in Vietnam that would cause acute encephalitis with a high fatal rate. This type of virus is named Acmong (nightmare).

According to Dr. Nga, the discovery and recognition of a new virus type must obey regulations and must be recognized by scientific councils and international-standard laboratories.

The official said he was surprised about the above news and denied the information that a new type of virus causing acute encephalitis has appeared in Vietnam.

Viet Nam Net
 
Re: Vietnam: Strange disease emerges in southern province

Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2008/12/816296/

Acmong virus under research
14:16' 01/12/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge ? The Health Ministry asked the Central Epidemiology Institute to report on the acmong virus, which has caused acute encephalitis in the northern province of Bac Giang.

Scientists of the Central Epidemiology Institute discovered this virus in 1999, but according to Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Chief of the Preventive Health and Environment Agency under the Health Ministry, the Health Ministry has not officially announced the appearance of acmong virus because the institute has not yet finished their research.

Normally, encephalitis epidemics occur during the summer, every 2-3 years, but the acmong virus has caused encephalitis epidemics in the northern province of Bac Giang for two consecutive years, 2007 and 2008. Last year scientists subdivided and decoded the gene and some virus types from cerebrospinal juice of patients.

Dr. Phan Thi Nga, from the Central Epidemiology Institute, who directly researched encephalitis in Bac Giang, said the institute found out about this type of virus in 1999 when many children in Bac Giang got encephalitis. The institute then conducted the ?Acute encephalitis syndrome in Bac Giang? project under the sponsorship of a French couple, Georges Deyme. Scientists called this virus acmong (nightmare). The project was approved by the Health Ministry in January 2006.

Dr. Nga said scientists detected that patients with acmong virus have different symptoms than patients with other kinds of encephalitis (Japanese encephalitis or meningitis). Specifically, the disease suddenly rises, with a high fatality rate. Out of 203 patients, over 30% died.

Researchers confirmed that this virus does not directly infect through person to person contact, but through mosquitoes or intermediate animals. However, this is not the final conclusion and scientists are continuing their research of the virus.

(Source: Tien Phong)
 
Re: Vietnam: Strange disease emerges in southern province

Pub Med results with ''encephalitis vietnam'' query:

1) Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Aug;14(8):1276-9. <script language="JavaScript1.2"><!-- var Menu18680655 = [ ["UseLocalConfig", "jsmenu3Config", "", ""], ["LinkOut", "window.top.location='/sites/entrez?Cmd=ShowLinkOut&Db=pubmed&TermToSearch=18680655&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus' ", "", ""] ] --></script>Links<dl class="AbstractPlusReport"><dd class="abstract"> Isolation and molecular characterization of Banna virus from mosquitoes, Vietnam.

<!--AuthorList-->Nabeshima T, Thi Nga P, Guillermo P, Parquet Mdel C, Yu F, Thanh Thuy N, Minh Trang B, Tran Hien N, Sinh Nam V, Inoue S, Hasebe F, Morita K.
</dd><dd class="abstract">
</dd><dd class="abstract">Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki City, Japan.
</dd><dd class="abstract">
</dd><dd class="abstract">We isolated and characterized a Banna virus from mosquitoes in Vietnam; 5 strains were isolated from field-caught mosquitoes at various locations; Banna virus was previously isolated from encephalitis patients in Yunnan, China, in 1987. Together, these findings suggest widespread distribution of this virus throughout Southeast Asia.
PMID: 18680655 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
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PubMed results (see above post):

<dl class="AbstractPlusReport"><dt class="head">J Neurovirol. 2005 Oct;11(5):434-40. <script language="JavaScript1.2"><!-- var Menu16287684 = [ ["UseLocalConfig", "jsmenu3Config", "", ""], ["Cited in PMC" , "window.top.location='http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=cited&tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16287684&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus&ordinalpos=1' ", "", ""], ["LinkOut", "window.top.location='/sites/entrez?Cmd=ShowLinkOut&Db=pubmed&TermToSearch=16287684&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus' ", "", ""] ] --></script>Links
</dt><dd class="abstract"> Emerging zoonotic encephalitis viruses: lessons from Southeast Asia and Oceania.

<!--AuthorList-->Mackenzie JS.
Australian Biosecurity CRC, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Mackenzie@curtin.edu.au
</dd><dd class="abstract">
</dd><dd class="abstract">The last decade of the 20th Century saw the introduction of an unprecedented number of encephalitic viruses emerge or spread in the Southeast Asian and Western Pacific regions (Mackenzie et al, 2001; Solomon, 2003a). Most of these viruses are zoonotic, either being arthropod-borne viruses or bat-borne viruses. Thus Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, has spread through the Indonesian archipelago to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and to the islands of the Torres Strait of northern Australia, to Pakistan, and to new areas in the Indian subcontinent; a strain of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) was described for the first time in Hokkaido, Japan; and a novel mosquito-borne alphavirus, Me Tri virus, was described from Vietnam. Three novel bat-borne viruses emerged in Australia and Malaysia; two, Hendra and Nipah viruses, represent the first examples of a new genus in the family Paramyxoviridae, the genus Henipaviruses, and the third, Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) is new lyssavirus closely related to classical rabies virus. These viruses will form the body of this brief review.
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</dd><dd class="abstract">PMID: 16287684 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
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