September 20, 2011
A man carrying chickens on National Highway 1 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District. Bird flu has hit flocks of fowl in three of Vietnam’s north-central provinces over the last two weeks, the Department of Animal Health announced on Tuesday (September 13). Hoang Van Nam, the department chief, said at a meeting of [...]
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July 1, 2011
Health workers arrive at a tent city on the outskirts of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to recover the body of a cholera victim in 2010. UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought the strain of cholera to Haiti responsible for an epidemic that has killed 5,500 people, according to a study published by the US Centers for Disease [...]
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June 26, 2011
Cucumbers in Germany have been found to contain the lethal train of E. coli bacterium. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Thursday asked concerned agencies to destroy fresh fruit and vegetables brought by tourists from Europe over concerns about the deadly E.coli outbreak. Food safety experts said that the Escherichia coli (E. coli) outbreak [...]
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January 17, 2010
Vietnam has asked the WHO for a response to allegations it had exaggerated the swine flu pandemic under pressure from pharmaceutical lobbies. Pharmaceutical companies have made huge profits from vaccine contracts in the wake of the crisis that critics say was overblown for that purpose.âAt the moment the Vietnam Ministry of Health is consulting various [...]
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January 12, 2010
The WHO is to examine its handling of the H1N1 pandemic, the group said Tuesday, after accusations by some politicians that it exaggerated the dangers of the virus under pressure from drug companies. The United Nations health agency will review the way it dealt with the outbreak of swine flu once the pandemic has subsided, [...]
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November 3, 2009
Chinese Ministry of Health on Monday disproved an online rumor that the recent A/H1N1 influenza outbreak in Beijing was caused by vaccination among students for the country’s National Day celebration. “The rumor violates scientific theories and does not consist with the truth,” said the ministry’s spokesman Mao Qunan. “It is totally fabrication.” Reports on some [...]
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September 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – About 30 students from Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Primary School in HCM City’s District 12 have tested positive for swine flu, The outbreak was the biggest at a single school since the epidemic started to spread.All were rushed to District 12 General Hospital and treated with Tamiflu. Their condition is improving, according to [...]
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September 12, 2009
School closure, if adopted timely and properly, can effectively slow down the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. File photo shows students of Beijing No. 2 Experiment Primary School queue for temperature check at the school gate in Beijing, China, on Sep. 1, 2009. Middle schools and [...]
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September 10, 2009
The second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Quang Binh has affected nearly 40 cows and buffalos. The central provinceâs agriculture department said on Tuesday that authorities in Truong Xuan Commune and related agencies have taken measures to prevent the spread of the highly infectious viral disease, including a ban on transporting meat out of the [...]
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August 2, 2009
Pre-schools in District 8 announce they will be closed until August 16 (photo: SGGP)LookAtVietnam – Makeshift hospitals in schools have worked effectively in preventing swine flu, said a health official on July 31. The director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, Dr. Nguyen Van Chau, announced the spreading flu among high school students [...]
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