January 20, 2012
Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu Manh Sieu, director of the HCMC Center for Preventive Health, as saying that the cases were detected among workers of the Japanese-owned [...]
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January 17, 2012
A patient at the Vietnam Central Tropical Diseases Hospital with a contagious brain inflammation condition. A patient in northern Vietnam was Friday confirmed to have a contagious brain inflammation that could be fatal. At least five such cases have been reported in Ho Chi Minh City since December last year. The 21-year-old woman, identified as T.T.T., tested [...]
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January 16, 2012
A patient with fatal brain inflammation in HCMC Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have warned of the outbreak of a fatal type of encephalitis that has affected five co-workers. The disease was caused by Neisseria, a large genus of commensal bacteria that colonize in the mucosal surfaces of many animals, and quickly kill the [...]
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December 23, 2011
The first and only province to declare the epidemic of the hand, foot, and mouth disease in Vietnam this week said the dangerous period has ended. Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan made the announcement after its Health Department on December 12 said the province has gotten the disease under control. The number of [...]
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December 5, 2011
Lumps cover the face of Thach Thi Sa Ly. (Photo: Lao Dong) A 35-year-old woman in a poor, rural village in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang seems threatening to strangers because of her densely covered bubble-like lumps, Lao Dong newspaper reported. Thousands of small tumors are covering Thach Thi Sa Ly’s body, including her [...]
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November 26, 2011
Most people in Vietnam are reluctant to have a blood test for Hepatitis C, as they underestimate the harm of the disease. The number of Hepatitis C patients in Vietnam is increasing, and around half a million people are estimated to develop cirrhosis and liver cancer this year, experts said at a recent seminar. Â [...]
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November 22, 2011
A child being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam’s Health Minister on Saturday visited areas in central Vietnam affected with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). During her visit at Ninh Thuan, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien called for washing hands clean with soap and inspected HFMD treatments at [...]
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November 17, 2011
Nguyen Van Khai, who has used a chemical substance to treat hand-foot-mouth disease in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Vietnam health ministry has asked a hospital in Ninh Thuan Province to stop using a treatment for hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) initiated by a physicist until scientific assessments can be made, VnExpress reported Tuesday. The ministry made [...]
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November 12, 2011
As many as 65 percent of around 4.5 million diabetes patients in Vietnam are unaware they have the chronic disease, the Vietnam Nutrition Association (Vinutas) said at a recent workshop. Vinutas said that those who do not detect the disease early for proper treatment can suffer dangerous complications, including kidney failure, high blood pressure, [...]
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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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