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 19, 2012
Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. Â Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region after China in late December reported its first fatality from the H5N1 virus in 18 months, but [...]
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December 12, 2011
The type of link that spreads a new virus on Facebook chat A Vietnamese Internet security center on Thursday said it has found a new virus that spreads via Facebook’s chat feature. Experts from the Hanoi-based Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Company said that when one computer is infected, contaminated links will automatically be sent to [...]
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December 10, 2011
Vietnam Health Ministry on Monday asked epidemic institutes to prepare for a new subtype of “swine flu” virus that can enter country. Â The statement was made by the ministry’s Preventive Health Department after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, on November 23 announced three more cases infected with the [...]
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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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September 3, 2011
Experts urge better detection and poultry production practices in response to a new mutant strain of H5N1 appearing in the northern and central parts of the country Cooked chicken are displayed for sale on a street in Hanoi. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned against a new strain of H5N1 virus in [...]
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August 8, 2011
A baby with cataract as a rubella syndrome at the Central Ob-Gyn Hospital in Hanoi. A woman in northern Vietnam spent three years undergoing treatment for infertility, and then had to have an abortion in the 12th week of her pregnancy after she caught the Rubella virus.  The woman is one of more than 1,000 [...]
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August 4, 2011
Vietnam’s leading cyber security center reported Monday that at least 85,000 computers in Vietnam had their data stolen after being infected with a virus last month, raising concerns that hackers obtained important information. Â According to the Hanoi-based Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Company (BKIS), hackers with servers in the US, Russia and China spread [...]
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April 12, 2011
Dogs and cats are the leading cause of rabies around the world. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted trough saliva that causes acute encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain. It is almost always fatal if appropriate treatment is not provided in time. Once the symptoms appear, the disease will always lead to death, in spite [...]
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December 16, 2010
While no bird flu human case has been recorded over the past eight months in Vietnam, the country is still at high risk of the epidemic among humans, according to the Ministry of Health.  Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the ministry’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said recently that the H5N1 virus has [...]
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