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 21, 2011
Pathologists from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia attend a workshop on transmittable disease from animals to humans in Hanoi. Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian pathologists are being trained to identify and respond early to dangerous pathogens so that they can better cope with the risk of emergence and spread of new pandemic diseases . During the October [...]
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September 20, 2011
A man carrying chickens on National Highway 1 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District. Bird flu has hit flocks of fowl in three of Vietnam’s north-central provinces over the last two weeks, the Department of Animal Health announced on Tuesday (September 13). Hoang Van Nam, the department chief, said at a meeting of [...]
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September 13, 2011
Ducklings at an incubation farm outside Hanoi. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said a new strain of bird flu virus has yet to increase the risk to human health in Vietnam. A new bird flu virus strain is unlikely to increase the risk to human health in Vietnam despite a warning last week [...]
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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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