November 13, 2011
Dengue fever has so far this year claimed 46 lives among 49,011 Vietnamese people who have been infected, according to the Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine. Most of the dengue fever cases have been found in the central and southern regions, the administration said. It said the epidemic is under control because the number [...]
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October 30, 2011
Child patients at HCMC Children’s Hospital 1 being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam is still under control, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a press conference Tuesday (October 25), despite the rising number of new HFMD cases. The disease has killed 137 people, [...]
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September 1, 2011
Children being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease at Ho Chi Minh City Children's Hospital 2. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) claimed 85 lives among 35,623 infections in 59 cities and provinces across the country, the Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine announced Thursday. The administration noted that the HFMD is spreading to more [...]
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June 12, 2011
A GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc. employee bottles Ziagen, an HIV oral liquid medication, on the packaging line at the company's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Dec. 13, 2010. By Francoise Barré-Sinoussi (*) Thirty years ago, US scientists identified the first case of an immune system failure that we (Luc Montagnier, myself and colleagues) found [...]
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March 3, 2011
Half of men in the general population may be infected with human papillomavirus or HPV, the human wart virus that causes cervical and other cancers, strengthening the case for vaccinating boys against HPV, US researchers said on Monday. US vaccine advisers have been weighing whether boys and young men should be vaccinated against the [...]
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August 17, 2009
Children are taught to wear medical masks at a primary school in Ho Chi Minh City. Education authorities at large cities nationwide have sterilized schools and are ready to teach students prevention measures against influenza A (H1N1) as millions of them officially start the new school year Monday. Some schools in Hanoi had opened for [...]
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August 12, 2009
A doctor test blood samples for the H1N1 virus. Ho Chi Minh City has recorded its first death of an influenza A (H1N1) patient. The second flu death in the nation less than two weeks after the first was confirmed Tuesday by the HCMC Health Department.Fifty-two-year-old Tran Thi Binh in District 10 died Monday night, [...]
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July 30, 2009
Employees at the PetroVietnam building in HCMC wore masks at work Wednesday after an employee was found infected with the flu. Offices and businesses in Ho Chi Minh City have beefed up measures against the spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus as it appears to have picked up pace during the last several days. [...]
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July 28, 2009
A new report released on July 23 by US-based advertising traffic analysis firm Anchor shows that Vietnam tops the world for click fraud in online advertising. The report, based on an analysis of billions of clicks a month on its clients’ advertising networks, said that nearly half of all the advertising clicks coming from Vietnam [...]
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July 27, 2009
Ho Chi Minh City Sunday confirmed 12 more H1N1 infections in students at three schools while 45 new cases were confirmed nationwide, raising the countryâs tally to 612. Ngo Thoi Nhiem Private High School in District 9, the first school in the city to be hit with an outbreak of the flu, reported four more [...]
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