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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June 26, 2011
The United Nations praised the opening of the first methadone co-pay clinic in the northern city of Hai Phong, early this week. The clinic, which opened last Saturday, was created as part of the country’s ongoing campaign to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS among intravenous drug users. On Tuesday, UN officials issued a statement [...]
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January 17, 2010
Disease experts in Southeast Asia will map out key poultry smuggling routes, especially along Cambodia’s long border with Thailand and Vietnam, in a move to prevent the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the region. Researchers from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam met in the Chinese city of Kunming to discuss ways [...]
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November 26, 2009
Nobel laureate calls on students to combat HIV/AIDS; Vietnam to host 46th Int’l Chemistry Olympiad; Int’l Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Conference and Expo opens in Hanoi; All urban areas to have clean water by 2025 Nobel laureate calls on students to combat HIV/AIDSFrench virologist and 2008 Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi on November 24 called on students in Ho [...]
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November 10, 2009
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent an urgent message asking provinces nationwide to prevent the outbreak of animal epidemics. The ministry asked the localities to mobilise their resources and entrust local authorities to control the spread of the epidemics of cattle, poultry and pigs.The ministry asked the localities to mobilise their resources [...]
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August 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism has called on tourist companies to protect tourists against negative effects of the A/H1N1 flu. Medical workers check quarantine certificates at Noi Bai International Airport. The national tourism agency has asked tourist firms to protect their customers against the flu.One key recommendation would be to have [...]
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August 10, 2009
A mother reads a notice announcing the closure of a school in Hanoi. Le Minh Hieu was in a bind when he learnt that schools in Hanoi had closed in a move to prevent the spread of influenza A (H1N1). He could not find any one to help him care for his five-year-old son when [...]
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August 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – To prevent the pneumonic plague outbreak in China from spreading to Vietnam, the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment, August 6 asked border quarantine agencies to closely supervise goods and people entering Vietnam from China. Chinese face an outbreak of pneumonic plague (Photo: AFP) Nga warned that rats can carry the pneumonic plague to [...]
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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 29, 2009
Female workers tend grass outside a resort-hotel project under construction in the central coastal city of Da Nang. The first influenza A case was detected in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai Tuesday as the Health Ministry reported 31 new cases nationwide, raising the countryâs tally to 703. Dau Hoang Anh, 17, a student [...]
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