07 Feb 2009 08:52:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
HANOI, Feb 7 (Reuters) -
A 23-year-old man has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus in northern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper reported on Saturday.
The online Lao Dong newspaper (www.laodong.com.vn) quoted health officials as saying the man from Dam Ha district in the northern province of Quang Ninh, about 150 km (93 miles) from Hanoi had fallen ill and tests showed he carried the bird flu virus.
The report quoted doctors as saying the man had high fever and severe respiratory problem.
Prior to this case, Vietnam has this year confirmed one case of human infection in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, involving an 8-year-old girl who fell sick after eating duck and chicken raised on her family's farm.
She has recovered.
On Saturday, the agriculture ministry said bird flu had infected poultry in three provinces in the country, Ca Mau and Soc Trang in the south and Nghe An in the central region.
The H5N1 flu remains largely a virus among birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted by humans and spark a pandemic that could kill millions worldwide.
(Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam and Sugita Katyal)
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Vietnam has new human bird flu case-paper
07 Feb 2009 08:52:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
HANOI, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A 23-year-old man has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus in northern Vietnam, a state-run newspaper reported on Saturday.
The online Lao Dong newspaper (www.laodong.com.vn) quoted health officials as saying the man from Dam Ha district in the northern province of Quang Ninh, about 150 km (93 miles) from Hanoi had fallen ill and tests showed he carried the bird flu virus.
The report quoted doctors as saying the man had high fever and severe respiratory problem.
Prior to this case, Vietnam has this year confirmed one case of human infection in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, involving an 8-year-old girl who fell sick after eating duck and chicken raised on her family's farm. She has recovered.
On Saturday, the agriculture ministry said bird flu had infected poultry in three provinces in the country, Ca Mau and Soc Trang in the south and Nghe An in the central region.
The H5N1 flu remains largely a virus among birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted by humans and spark a pandemic that could kill millions worldwide.
(Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam and Sugita Katyal)
Quang Ninh:
Detecting the first patient infected with H5N1 virus
Lao Dong Electronic Update: 12:00 PM, 07/02/2009
(LDDT) - That patients Mui Tai Ly, 23 years of age, ethnic Dao, villages Port Na, An Quang commune, Dam Ha district, Quang Ninh.
Patients have been through two emergency hospitals to district general hospital in Quang Ninh PM on 3.2.2009 in the state high fever, blood pressure dropped respiratory failure and severe. To have on the fourth hospital, but capable of recovery of patients likely evolve.
Patients were tested first using test quickly, but the results are negative. The second test with PCR method (method of integrating gen), the result is positive.
According to initial conclusions, patients Ly Tai Mui infected H5N1 virus. Specialists Hospital under the medical clinical tropical diseases and the epidemiological hygiene Central has been in Quang Ninh to review this case and localities where the disease source.
According to information from the Department of Health, in a patient infected with influenza A/H5N1. This is Ly Tai Mui (women, ethnic Dao), 23 years old, the port village of Na, An Quang commune, Dam Ha district, the patient is transferred in emergency Hospital in Quang Ninh Province to 3-2 pm in in high fever, blood pressure dropped respiratory failure and severe. There are patients actively treated in isolation rooms.
Known experts, under the Institute of infectious diseases and Tropical National Institute of Hygiene and epidemiology Central has been in Quang Ninh to review this case and to direct resources where the disease inspection, monitoring situation.
Department of Health recommended Quang Ninh provinces actively prevent influenza A/H5N1 outbreaks.
Re: Vietnam has new human bird flu case-paper - Human Cases Jan 30 +
I think they are a little late with the headline since he already tested positive. At least it gives a hospitalization date and a possible infection source.
Vietnam man suspected of infection with bird flu
Hanoi - A man suspected of being infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus is in critical condition at a hospital in northern Vietnam, health officials said Saturday. Ly Tai Mui, 23, has been hospitalized since February 3 at Quang Ninh general hospital, 150 kilometres west of Hanoi. Mui, a member of the Dao ethnic minority, had eaten the meat of a sick chicken in his village in rural Quang Ninh province some days before falling ill.
"We suspect this patient is infected with the avian flu virus," said Nguyen Huy Nga, head of Vietnam's Preventive Health and Environment Agency. Nga said a definitive diagnosis would have to wait for the results of tests early next week.
Nguyen Van Trong of the Quang Ninh health department said Mui was in critical condition and was breathing with the help of an oxygen machine. Dr Phan Van Tan, the doctor in charge of Mui's case, said he was in an isolated room to prevent contagion.
Vietnam's Ministry of Health has sent experts from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the National Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, both in Hanoi, to Quang Ninh to investigate the case.
The group will return to Hanoi to report to leaders at the Health Ministry and obtain their approval before officially announcing next week whether Mui has avian flu.
Vietnam's first human case of bird flu this year was reported in January when a 13-year-old girl from Thanh Hoa province, 150 kilometers south of Hanoi, tested positive for the virus.
The girl's older sister died on January 2 in Thanh Hoa after displaying symptoms consistent with bird flu, but doctors failed to test for the virus, and her body was not exhumed for testing because of religious reasons.
Avian influenza has infected 106 people in Vietnam and killed 52 since it first appeared in the country in late 2003.
The disease is usually spread by contact between sick birds and humans, but scientists fear that the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible among humans and spark a global pandemic that could kill millions.
Re: Vietnam has new human bird flu case-paper - Human Cases Jan 30 +
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I think they are a little late with the headline since he already tested positive. At least it gives a hospitalization date and a possible infection source.
Vietnam man suspected of infection with bird flu
Vietnam's first human case of bird flu this year was reported in January when a 13-year-old girl from Thanh Hoa province, 150 kilometers south of Hanoi, tested positive for the virus.
The girl's older sister died on January 2 in Thanh Hoa after displaying symptoms consistent with bird flu, but doctors failed to test for the virus, and her body was not exhumed for testing because of religious reasons.
Hanoi: Officials say Vietnam has reported a new human case of bird flu as a conflict in Hanoi illustrated the challenges that health authorities confront as they try to prevent the spread of the virus.
According to officials at a hospital in the northern province of Quang Ninh, a 23-year-old woman from northern Vietnam has tested positive for the H5N1 virus, the second human case reported in the country this year. She has been hooked to a respirator since being admitted five days ago, said hospital deputy director Nguyen Quoc Hung.
Authorities, meanwhile, said Sunday more than 100 villagers in a district just outside Hanoi prevented authorities from destroying the chickens that had been smuggled in from China.
A melee broke out in northern Vietnam when more than 100 villagers prevented authorities from destroying chickens to stop the spread of bird flu, officials said Sunday as the country announced its second H5N1 case.
About 100 villagers in Thuong Tin district just outside Hanoi overwhelmed police and health authorities Thursday and stopped them from destroying about 1,500 chickens smuggled in from China, said official Vu Van Dung.
As about 30 police and health officials removed the poultry from a truck to burn in a pit, the villagers — desperate for the income the birds could provide — grabbed the chickens and ran off.
"I told the villagers that the chickens had been sprayed with chemicals and were not edible, but they didn't listen," Dung said. "They grabbed chickens from us, and we were overwhelmed."
Meanwhile, in northern Quang Ninh province, tests results confirmed Friday that a 23-year-old woman was infected with the H5N1 virus.
She was on a respirator since being hospitalized five days ago, hospital deputy director Nguyen Quoc Hung said. The woman became ill after slaughtering and eating chickens her family was raising. Five other family members who had also eaten the chicken showed no symptoms.
In early January, an 8-year-old girl from northern Thanh Hoa province tested positive for bird flu, Vietnam's first reported human case in more than 10 months.
Bird flu has killed 52 people in Vietnam, including five last year, since it began raging through Asian poultry stocks in late 2003.
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Meanwhile, in northern Quang Ninh province, tests results confirmed Friday that a 23-year-old woman was infected with the H5N1 virus.
She was on a respirator since being hospitalized five days ago, hospital deputy director Nguyen Quoc Hung said. The woman became ill after slaughtering and eating chickens her family was raising. Five other family members who had also eaten the chicken showed no symptoms.
Process, fold area, dập outbreaks in the area and appear HPAI
Ngay khi có thông tin về trường hợp bệnh nhân Lý Tài Múi, xã Quảng An (Đầm Hà) hiện đang điều trị tại Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh nghi nhiễm cúm A (H5N1), ngày 7- 3, Đoàn công tác của Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ Trung ương, Cục Y tế Dự phòng và Trung tâm Y tế dự phòng tỉnh do Tiến sĩ Hoàng Minh Tân, Phó Trưởng Khoa dịch tễ của Viện Vệ sinh dịch tễ Trung ương dẫn đầu đã về chỉ đạo trực tiếp công tác khoanh vùng, xử lý, dập dịch tại khu vực nghi xuất hiện dịch cúm gia cầm của xã Quảng An, huyện Đầm Hà.
Once information about the patient Mui Tai Ly, An Quang commune (Ha Dam) is treated in Provincial Hospital infection of influenza A (H5N1), on 7 - 3, Mission of about Birthday Central epidemiology, Department of Health and the Medical Center by the province for Dr. Hoang Minh Tan, Deputy Dean of the epidemiological hygiene epidemiology central leader has to guide and direct fold area, process, and dập in the area and appear HPAI An Quang commune, Dam Ha district.
Bệnh nhân Lý Tài Múi đang được cách ly và điều trị tích cực tại Bệnh viện đa khoa Quảng Ninh
Patients Ly Tai Mui is isolation and active treatment in General Hospital in Quang Ninh
Theo điều tra dịch tễ, thôn Nà Cáng, xã Quảng An, nơi bệnh nhân Lý Tài Múi sinh sống, có 13 hộ.
According to epidemiological surveys, village Port Na, An Quang commune, where patient Ly Mui Tai living, has 13 households.
Trong đó có 11 hộ gia đình ở xung quanh nhà bệnh nhân Múi.
Including 11 households around a patient's nose.
Hầu hết các gia đình đều có nuôi gà theo hình thức thả rông.
Most families are raising chickens in the form drop empty.
Trước và trong thời điểm bệnh nhân bị bệnh, các gia đình xung quanh có gà bị ốm chết.
Before and during ill patients, families around the sick chickens have died.
Từ ngày 27-1 cho đến ngày 7- 2, nhà bệnh nhân múi có khoảng 20 con gà bị ốm chết.
From 27-1 days to 7 to 2, the patient múi about 20 children have been sick chickens died.
Trước đó, bệnh nhân và chồng có trực tiếp làm thịt gà và cả 10 người trong gia đình chị Múi đều ăn thịt gà.
Previously, patients and have directly as chicken meat and 10 people in her family are Mui eat chicken.
Riêng bệnh nhân ăn rất nhiều bữa thịt gà do trước đó bị ốm nên gia đình bồi bổ.
Individual patients eat many meals of meat chickens previously been so sick by the family.
Hiện các thành viên khác trong gia đình bệnh nhân và người dân xung quanh chưa có biểu hiện gì.
There other members of patient families and people around does not have to do.
Đoàn công tác cùng chính quyền địa phương đã tiến hành phun tiêu trùng khử độc toàn bộ 11 hộ dân xung quanh và gia đình bệnh nhân.
Mission with the local government has spray target center in all 11 households around the family and patients.
Đoàn tiến hành lấy 9 mẫu bệnh phẩm của người nhà bệnh nhân, người dân có tiếp xúc trực tiếp với bệnh nhân và 5 mẫu bệnh phẩm của gà để xét nghiệm.
Union conducted 9 samples taken sick person's home patients, people with direct contact with patients and 5 samples of chicken diseases subject to testing.
Tại Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh, Đoàn cũng tiến hành lấy 7 mẫu bệnh phẩm của người nhà bệnh nhân, nhân viên y tế trực tiếp điều trị cho bệnh nhân.
At Provincial Hospital, the delegation also conducted 7 get sick form the subject of the patients, medical staff directly treating patients.
Cán bộ đội y tế dự phòng huyện Đầm Hà tiến hành phun khử trùng khu vực nghi xuất hiện dịch cúm gia cầm
Team officials preventive health Dam Ha district conducted khử spray areas of overlap appear HPAI
Đoàn chỉ huyện Đầm Hà cần tăng cường hơn nữa về nhân lực, vật lực cho công tác phòng chống dịch, tuyên truyền nâng cao ý thức của người dân trong việc xử lý gia cầm ốm chết. Chi cục Thú y tỉnh, Cơ quan Thú Y vùng II (Hải Phòng) cũng đã tiến hành điều tra tình hình chăn nuôi, buôn bán gia cầm trên địa bàn xã Quảng An; lấy 1 mẫu bệnh phẩm gia cầm để xét nghiệm, nếu có kết quả dương tính với H5N1 sẽ cho tiêu huỷ toàn bộ gia cầm ở xã.
Union Dam Ha district only needs to increase more on human resources, material resources for the prevention of disease, the propaganda advantage of people in handling sick birds died. Its Provincial Health, the Animal Y II area (Hai Phong) has conducted surveys on livestock, poultry traders in the area in Quang An; samples taken 1 sick poultry products to test, if results are positive for the H5N1 strain will destroyed all poultry in.
Cũng trong ngày 7-2, Trung tâm Y tế Dự phòng tỉnh đã cấp 170 bộ quần áo phòng chống dịch và 70kg Cloramin B cho huyện Đầm Hà; cấp 100 bộ quần áo phòng chống dịch và 35kg Cloramin B cho Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh.
Also in 7-2, Center for Health has issued 170 of clothing preventive and 70kg for Cloramin B Dam Ha district; level of 100 clothing preventive and 35kg for Cloramin B Provincial Hospital .
Sở Y tế tiếp tục chỉ đạo các đơn vị y tế dự phòng và các đơn vị điều trị trên địa bàn chủ động giám sát dịch cúm A (H5N1) ở người và kịp thời phát hiện, điều trị khi có bệnh nhân.
Department of Health to continue guiding the preventive health and treatment unit in the province actively monitor flu A (H5N1) and in the timely detection, treatment when the patients.
TTO - That patients Mui Tai Ly, 23 years old, resident in Port Na, An Quang commune (Ha Dam). On 28-1, judicious of Time does have the fever, the family to Medical Center Dam Ha district, then moved to 2-2 on Hospital area Tien Yen.
The patient was diagnosed with pneumonia due to virus status chest pain, difficulty breathing and the Provincial Hospital on 3-2. In this patient is the health, doctors Provincial Hospital infection diagnosis of influenza virus A (H5N1) and samples of products disease patients submitted Institute sanitation epidemiology central tested.
Despite all the doubt, but patients have been isolation hospitals and apply it exposed treatment for patients infected with influenza A under the Ministry of Health. Three patients go home the same care is isolation. Current health patients complicated place, and carry the pleura, the risk of high mortality. Doctor promptly Institute of tropical diseases and contaminated countries have been coordinating with the Provincial Hospital in treating positive patients.
Theo initial investigation, patients who do not slaughter poultry but eat chicken. Many households around the patient's family are raising chickens and chickens have died. Those who left the family not patients have symptoms.
TTO - That patients Mui Tai Ly, 23 years old, resident in Port Na, An Quang commune (Ha Dam). On 28-1, judicious of Time does have the fever, the family to Medical Center Dam Ha district, then moved to 2-2 on Hospital area Tien Yen.
The patient was diagnosed with pneumonia due to virus status chest pain, difficulty breathing and the Provincial Hospital on 3-2. In this patient is the health, doctors Provincial Hospital infection diagnosis of influenza virus A (H5N1) and samples of products disease patients submitted Institute sanitation epidemiology central tested.
Despite all the doubt, but patients have been isolation hospitals and apply it exposed treatment for patients infected with influenza A under the Ministry of Health. Three patients go home the same care is isolation. Current health patients complicated place, and carry the pleura, the risk of high mortality. Doctor promptly Institute of tropical diseases and infectious country has been coordinated with the Provincial Hospital in treating positive patients.
According to initial investigation, patients who do not slaughter poultry but eat chicken. Many households around the patient's family are raising chickens and chickens have died. Those who left the family not patients have symptoms.
Quang Ninh woman suspected of contracting bird flu
People try to take back chicken of dubious origin meant for culling from a truck in Hanoi’s Thuong Tin District on Thursday
A 23-year-old woman is suspected of contracting the H5N1 strain of bird flu after suffering severe respiratory problems in northern Quang Ninh Province Saturday, health officials said.
Ly Tai Mui of Quang Ninh’s Dam Ha District was admitted to the Quang Ninh General Hospital on Tuesday with high fever, low blood pressure, and severe respiratory problems, doctors said. But doctors reported they were unable to conclude if Mui had been infected with the H5N1 virus. One test showed she carried it, but another was negative. Health experts were dispatched Saturday to Quang Ninh to carry out further examinations. Work to disinfect Dam Ha District also began Saturday. Quang Ninh, where the world renowned Ha Long Bay is located, is about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Hanoi.
Before Mui, an eight-year-old girl in the northern province of Thanh Hoa who fell sick after eating duck and chicken raised on her family's farm was diagnosed with the bird flu. She has since recovered, but her 13- year-old sister died in the hospital earlier without being tested for the virus before her burial, health officials said. The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau reported Saturday the bird flu has spread among four local communes, prompting the culling of 3,250 birds to contain the epidemic.
The Ca Mau government also asked agencies concerned to take further measures against the spread of the disease in the province.
The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang began disinfection work Saturday after 700 birds were recently reported to have died of the flu.
The avian flu has thus far infected poultry in four provinces in the country – Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta region and Nghe An in the north.
The H5N1 remains largely confined to birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted by humans and spark a pandemic that could kill millions worldwide.
Since 2003, Vietnam has recorded 52 human deaths from bird flu, the second highest toll after Indonesia, where the virus has killed 115 people. Chicken thieves
The deputy chairman of the People’s Committee of Hanoi Saturday called for strict action against residents who stole around 1,000 chickens meant for destruction three days ago in Hanoi’s Thuong Tin District. On Thursday, the Hanoi Veterinary Bureau was collecting some 1,500 chickens of unknown origin for culling when many locals flocked to the scene to take the birds back, said bureau chief Nguyen Xuan Vui. They dug up holes to retrieve buried chickens or jumped into the trucks to get the fowl back, Vui said. Vui also said he had warned the people it would be very risky to eat the birds, but the warning had fallen on deaf ears.
TP - Patients Ly Tai Mui (SN 1986) Dao ethnic residence in Port Na, Quang An, Dam Ha (Quang Ninh) was concluded with positive H5N1 virus following two test methods using PCR (the the gene).
Patient hospital districts on 3 / 2 states in high fever, blood pressure dropped and respiratory failure and then be transferred to General Hospital in Quang Ninh Province.
However, after four days of treatment positive patients are no signs of recovery.
Specialists Hospital Tropical Institute sanitation epidemiology T.U present in Quang Ninh to diagnose, given exposed control and conduct environmental review of life of patients where the source of the disease.
Quang Ninh: A patient of influenza A/H5N1 infection
Updated at 21h28 ", dated 07/02/2009 --
(VnMedia) - The Quang Ninh has discovered a female patient infected by viruses of influenza A/H5N1. Patients called Mui Tai Ly, 23 years old, resident in Port Na, An Quang commune, district Ðam Ha.
Mui patients hospitalized in the state high fever, blood pressure dropped respiratory failure and severe. There are patients be monitored and treated in General Hospital in Quang Ninh Province.
When tested to find influenza A/H5N1 virus with fast test times 1 for negative results, but the test method times 2 PCR positive results. Does not conclude patients are infected with influenza A virus H5N1 or not.
Experts under the Institute for infectious diseases and Tropical National Institute of Hygiene and epidemiology Central has been in Quang Ninh for review, diagnosis, treatment for patients and to the residence of the patient to perform inspection, investigation, and except disease.
08-02-2009
NDDT - Immediately after information about patient Ly Mui and infection of influenza A (H5N1) is treated at General Hospital in Quang Ninh Province, on 7-3, the delegation about the epidemiology of Central Department of Health backup and Medical Center for the province has been in Quang An, Dam Ha district guidance of fold regions, processed, and dập.
Port Na Thon, An Quang commune (Dam Ha district) where patients Ly Mui Tai living, has 13 households, of which 11 households around a patient's nose. Most families are raising chickens in the form drop empty; Before and during ill patients, families around the sick chickens have died, from 27-1 to 7-2 days, the patient Time about 20 children have been sick chickens died; Previously, patients and have directly as chicken meat and 10 family members were dead chickens eat.
Mission with the local government has spray target center in all 11 households around the family and patients and conduct patient samples collected 9 of the subject patients, people with direct contact with patients and 5 samples of chicken diseases subject to testing; (Prev at General Hospital in Quang Ninh Province, the delegation also conducted 7 get sick form the subject of the patients and medical staff directly for disease treatment staff.
Its provincial Health, Animal Health Agency Region II (Hai Phong) has conducted surveys on livestock, poultry traders in the area in Quang An; samples taken 1 sick poultry products to test, if results are positive for the H5N1 strain will destroyed all poultry in.
At Medical Center and the provincial level of 170 clothing preventive and 70kg for Cloramin B Dam Ha district; level of 100 clothing preventive and 35kg for Cloramin B Provincial Hospital.
Re: North Vietnam - New Case, Woman, 23, Tests Positive for H5N1
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Originally Posted by Rwilmer
What does the above article say? Is it a whole bunch of people suspected to have the virus? Or is it about poultry?
I interpret the post to say that the commune that Mui Tai Ly lived in consisted of 13 household, 11 of which were immediately adjacent to her household. Between Jan 27 and Feb 7, a number of chickens died in the commune and that Mui Tai Ly and possibly 10 other family members consumed some of these chickens. The households were sprayed and samples were collected from 9 other inidividuals who had direct contact with the infected woman.
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(Prev at General Hospital in Quang Ninh Province, the delegation also conducted 7 get sick form the subject of the patients and medical staff directly for disease treatment staff.
I agree with Laidback Al. I'm also wondering if they haven't tested 7 medical staff? I have no clue.
Tuesday, 10/02/2009 (Nld) - Patients infected with H5N1 virus is still critical - Hanoi: 322 people have been infected measles TPHCM l: Ra quân prevent disease measles vaccine for children
Department of Animal Health, said recently from 26-1 to 7-2, HPAI outbreaks have occurred in Quang An (Dam Ha, Quang Ninh) as 155 children die out of the 230 birds of 9 households. Test results positive for avian influenza virus. On 7 and 8-2, HPAI continues to be detected more in the bay year Nga district, Soc Trang, 2 Vinh Trung commune, Thang and The town Mau Nang, Vi Thuy district, Hau Giang. Presently there are 5 provinces with HPAI including Ca Mau, Soc Trang, Nghe An, Hau Giang and Quang Ninh.
- On 9-2, Ministry of Health informed test results form's disease patients Ly Tai Mui women (23 years of age, ethnic Dao, resident in Port Na, Quang An, Dam Ha district, Quang Ninh) about the epidemiology of central analysis shows positive for influenza A/H5N1. This is a patient infected with influenza A/H5N1 first in 2009. On 28-1, Mui she does have the fever, blood pressure dropped, respiratory failure severity. Ms. Mui still being actively treated in General Hospital in Quang Ninh, but get worse.
- Health Center for Hanoi that, up to 9-2 days, the city had 322 people infected measles in 66 communes, wards, of which 54% are students. According to Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Director Department of Department of Health and the Environment (Ministry of Health), from early 2009 till now has 11 provincial areas north recorded cases positive patients with measles.
- Doctor Nguyen Dac Tho, Deputy Director of Health Center for TPHCM, that has begun implementing campaign vaccine to prevent measles outbreaks nose 2 for children throughout the city, with more than 100,000 doses of measles vaccine has been transferred to 24 health centers and rural districts. 9 local military was immunized on the same day as District 8, 9, 11, Go Vap, Tan Binh, Binh Thanh, Tan Phu, Binh Tan and Hoc Mon districts. The program will last up to 6-3 days.
Re: North Vietnam - New Case, Woman, 23, Tests Positive for H5N1
VIETNAM: Second case of human avian influenza as bird infections spread
11 Feb 2009 11:39:45 GMT
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HANOI, 11 February 2009 (IRIN) - Vietnam's second human avian influenza case this year has been confirmed by health authorities, who are scrambling to contain the disease that has now spread to poultry in seven central and southern provinces.
Ly Tai Mui, from northern Quang Ninh Province, is seriously ill with pneumonia, having tested positive for human avian flu. The 23-year-old was hospitalised with fever and breathing difficulties in January after eating a sick chicken.
Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Preventative Health and Environment Agency, told IRIN the woman had shown "no improvement despite continuous positive treatment".
Nga said no other family members had shown signs of the virus even though they had also eaten infected poultry.
Vaccination efforts have become lax because Vietnam had, until recently, considered itself bird flu-free. Farmers have also delayed reporting outbreaks. In one case a crowd tried to prevent authorities from culling birds that were being transported to the capital and lacked proper health certificates.
"Hundreds of people were trying to grab the chickens," said Nguyen Huy Dang, a senior official with Hanoi's Animal Health Department. "They jumped into the pit where we were burning the [live] birds, even after we told them they had been sprayed with chemicals."
Animal health officials and market workers were unable to stop the crowds, which eventually made off with nearly all 1,500 birds. Police arrested nine people for trying to stop the cull.
"We never expected anything like that to happen," said Dang. "It's never happened before so we didn't have the personnel to prevent it."
Complacency
Vietnam has made impressive gains against avian influenza since the virus first appeared in the county in December 2003 [see: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian...a/country/en/].
After several dozen people died, the government decided in 2005 to vaccinate all 220 million domestic fowl, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.
Today, however, vaccination efforts are not as rigorous as when the programme was first introduced. Compliance was initially very high as farmers were terrified their flocks would become sick and be culled. But the success of the programme has also bred complacency.
Tran Cong Xuan, head of the Vietnam Poultry Association, said vaccination programmes this year had been patchy. "In some areas officials have not carried out vaccinations properly, and some localities report fake vaccination results as they want to report achievements."
Animal health officials in the southern province of Hau Giang said the recent outbreak of bird flu there was due to several farmers failing to register their ducks so the birds were never vaccinated.
"When we learned there were ducks dying, we came, but there were only 212 ducks left [out of about 400]," said Nguyen Hien Trung, head of the provincial animal health department. The rest of the ducks had died, said Trung. "The owners of the farm said they just threw the dead ducks into the river."
The first human case of bird flu in Vietnam in 2009 was of an eight-year-old girl in northern Thanh Hoa province. She eventually recovered but her older sister, who showed symptoms of the virus, died on 2 January. The girl was never tested for H5N1.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the avian influenza virus is transmitted to humans by eating uncooked meat or coming into contact with the faeces of an infected bird. Cases of human-to-human transmission are very rare but health authorities fear the virus could mutate into a form that could spread easily between people, developing into a pandemic strain that could move between countries.
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Re: North Vietnam - New Case, Woman, 23, Tests Positive for H5N1
WHO update and confirmation -
Avian influenza – situation in Viet Nam - update
11 February 2009 -- The Ministry of Health in Viet Nam has reported a new confirmed case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case has been confirmed at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE).
The case is a 23-year old woman from Dam Ha district, Quang Ninh province. She developed symptoms on 28 January 2009 and was hospitalized on 31 January 2009. She is currently in a serious condition and is known to have had recent contact with sick and dead poultry prior to the onset of her illness. Further investigations are currently underway. Control measures have been implemented and close contacts are being identified and monitored.
Of the 108 cases confirmed to date in Viet Nam, 52 have been fatal.
Re: North Vietnam - New Case, Woman, 23, Tests Positive for H5N1
Third bird flu case this year in Vietnam
Health News
Feb 16, 2009, 1:36 GMT
Hanoi - A Vietnamese man has tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the third confirmed case of bird flu in Vietnam this year, hospital sources said Monday.
The patient is a man in his 30s from the province of Ninh Binh, 100 kilometres south of Hanoi. Doctors at Hanoi's Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases said he had been hospitalized for five days with high fever and respiratory difficulties, and had tested positive for bird flu on Saturday.
The patient's condition was reportedly less severe than earlier cases this year in Vietnam, but worsening.
Vietnam's first confirmed human case of bird flu this year was a 13-year-old girl from Thanh Hoa province, 150 kilometers south of Hanoi. The girl's older sister died on January 2 after displaying symptoms consistent with bird flu, but was not tested for the virus.
A 23-year-old woman in Quang Ninh province, 150 kilometres west of Hanoi, has been hospitalized with bird flu since February 3 after eating the meat of a sick chicken.
Avian influenza has infected 106 people in Vietnam and killed 52 since it first appeared in the country in late 2003.
The disease is usually spread by contact between sick birds and humans, but scientists fear that the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible among humans and spark a global pandemic that could kill millions.
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