January 22, 2012
A teenage duck farmer in southern Vietnam has been killed by the bird flu virus this month, a doctor said at a meeting with Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Wednesday. Le Van N. of Hau Giang Province in the Mekong Delta was hospitalized January 10 with high fever and fatigue but died a day [...]
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January 29, 2010
The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute has successfully produced a toolkit set to test for the influenza A (H1N1) virus, an official from the Ministry of Science and Technology said at a meeting Wednesday. Developed in cooperation with Vietnam Institute of Biotechnology, the set can show results within 3-4 hours at the most and [...]
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November 27, 2009
Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi talks with students at the Vietnam National UniversityTuesday. Ending discrimination is key to preventing dreaded disease, says virologist who discovered HIV. A French scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 has urged students and scientists in Ho Chi Minh City to fight against discrimination of HIV/AIDS infected people.In a talk [...]
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October 18, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The ability of a mask made of special fabric to kill viruses including that of swine and avian flu has not verified, local health experts say. A boy tries wearing a Vinatex Como brand face mask at a pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City.Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, deputy director of the HCMC [...]
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October 18, 2009
A boy tries wearing a Vinatex Como brand face mask at a pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City The ability of a mask made of special fabric to kill viruses including that of swine and avian flu has not verified, local health experts say. Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, deputy director of the HCMC Tropical [...]
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October 10, 2009
Two more people have died of the influenza A H1N1 virus, bringing Vietnamâs death toll from the swine flu to 22, the Ministry of Health announced Friday. One of them was a 19-year-old youth from the northern province of Bac Giang, who was admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi two days after he [...]
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October 8, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The health ministry on October 5 announced 14 local laboratories were eligible to conduct influenza A H1N1 tests to deal with increasing demand. While all tests and treatment are offered free of charge, the ministry said it was not necessary for all people to have H1N1 tests. “The influenza A (H1N1) virus now [...]
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October 7, 2009
The health ministry on Monday announced 14 local laboratories were eligible to conduct influenza A H1N1 tests to deal with increasing demand. While all tests and treatment are offered free of charge, the ministry said it was not necessary for all people to have H1N1 tests. âThe influenza A (H1N1) virus now is found in [...]
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October 2, 2009
Southern Vietnamâs main swine-flu testing facility suspended testing Thursday, said HCMC Health Department official Phan Van Nghiem, arguing that not much would change as tests could be performed elsewhere. The Ho Chi Minh City department said Friday that test results from the cityâs Tropical Diseases Hospital, Childrenâs Hospital No.1, and Childrenâs Hospital No.2 would now [...]
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October 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The HCM City Pasteur Institute has announced it will temporarily stop testing A/H1N1 flu as of October 1 because it is out of necessary materials. The institute’s chief Tran Ngoc Huu said the Health Ministry has provided 1.5 billion dong to buy testing materials but the institute says it needs some time to arrange [...]
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