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Bird flu virus kills teen farmer in Vietnam 

January 22, 2012
Bird flu virus kills teen farmer in Vietnam 

  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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Home-grown H1N1 testing reagents on the way

August 29, 2009
Home-grown H1N1 testing reagents on the way

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam is researching the production of biological reagents to diagnose the H1N1 influenza A virus and has gained good results from the initial experiments.  LookAtVietnam – Vietnam is researching the production of biological reagents to diagnose the H1N1 influenza A virus and has gained good results from the initial experiments, a health official [...]

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Home-grown H1N1 testing reagents on the way

August 27, 2009
Home-grown H1N1 testing reagents on the way

Vietnam is researching the production of biological reagents to diagnose the H1N1 influenza A virus and has gained good results from the initial experiments, a health official said on Wednesday. The testing substances are being developed jointly by the Institute of Biotechnology and the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City and should be ready [...]

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Dengue fever ravishes southern Vietnam

May 9, 2009
Dengue fever ravishes southern Vietnam

More than 13,000 people in southern Vietnam have contracted dengue fever already this year, and 11 of them had died as of May 3, the director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City said Friday. The south, where the disease is far more prevalent, accounts for 84.4 percent of the current number of [...]

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Vaccination statement sparks debate

March 25, 2009
Vaccination statement sparks debate

Medical workers vaccinate a child at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Several medical centers in Ho Chi Minh City are asking for a signed declaration that a person agrees to be vaccinated after a doctor has explained its benefits and possible side effects. This has aroused some public suspicion that the doctors and [...]

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Vietnam’s success in HIV/AIDS prevention: Nobel laureate

March 14, 2009
Vietnam’s success in HIV/AIDS prevention: Nobel laureate

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Luc Montagnier for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus, talked with SGGP as she arrived in Vietnam for a seminar on HIV/AIDS in HCM City on March 9. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (L) on her visit to HCMC (Photo; SGGP)LookAtVietnam – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...