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Vietnam: "Strange disease" with history of fatalities returns in Quang Ngai (severe dermatitis with increased liver enzymes)

Catbird

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Machine translation:

"Strange disease re-export in Quang Ngai after 6 months of absence

Quang Ngai General Hospital has received two patients in the mountainous districts of Son Ha symptoms horny thick palms, feet dermatitis strange that killed 24 people two years.

6 months, patients horn thick palms, feet in mountainous Ba lull after the second outbreak. Recently however, there are two patients in Son Ha district hospital with symptoms such as thick horns. Two patients that he and his wife Ding Van Hoan (63 years) and Ms. Dinh Thi Chalk (58) in Ka Park Village, Son Ba.

Two patients admitted to hospital Quang Ngai on 19/2 with status aching limbs, floating around hands scars thick horns.

According to the medical records of the Quang Ngai General Hospital, patients with thick horn hands and feet, with purple edges, lesions characterized by thick horn hand foot syndrome. Patients sore wounded area, fatigue, poor appetite.

Dr. Le Thi Bich Lien, Deputy Head of the Department of Dermatology, Hospital of Quang Ngai said the consultation results showed that two patients with hand the thick horn dermatitis syndrome of the foot. These are the first two cases in the district of Son Ha disease.

Strange dermatitis outbreak in the Ba district for two years. Statistics of the People's Committee of Ba district, the district has recorded 240 cases of dermatitis, including 24 deaths.

The Ministry of Health has invited the World Health Organization (WHO) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the foreign experts traced the cause "strange disease" in Ba, but so far not yet been determined...".


This article also mentions the presence of high liver enzymes.

Machine translation:

Detect cases of suspected "strange disease"


"On 26.2, Quang Ngai General Hospital said it was treating two patients with symptoms like strange disease (gastritis syndrome horny hands, feet) used raging in H. Ba in 2012, causing dozens of deaths but has yet to find the cause.

Two patients Ms. Dinh Thi Chalk (57) and his Ding Van Hoan (63 years old), are in Son Three, H.Son Ha, bordering local with Silk H.Ba, hospitalized on 19.2 with Symptoms thick horny hands, feet, high liver enzymes ...".


ETA: See FT thread about previous outbreak here.
 
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