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Influenza A yields in Vietnam, but a warning of possible mutations
Written by Susana Ugarte Soler
thursday, 07 of 2010 of enero
07 of January 2010, 12:07 Hanoi, Jan 7 (Prensa Latina) The influenza A (H1N1) seems to give in Vietnam, health authorities said today that at the same time warned of possible mutations of the virus in the winter-spring season.
Only one case was reported last week across the country, the director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment, Nguyen Huy Nga.
Nga said that nevertheless must uphold the prevention and control of epidemics, because the winter-spring period propitious conditions for the resurgence of many diseases and power above all the risk that the H1N1 strain could mutate combined with other viruses and bearing even more lethal.
He said that the number of infections with this pathogen to date amounted to 11 thousand 112 cases, including 53 deaths around the country.
In this region of Southeast Asia Thailand holds the record for patients, with 29 thousand 921, while total deaths reached 192 in the last seven days, although the World Health Organization ranked the country with the epidemic under control.
A young pregnant woman became the latest fatality of H1N1 in the Thai kingdom, as reported by the Ministry of Public Health.
The woman, aged 27 and 16 weeks of gestation, was from the southwestern province of Nakhon Sawan and suffered from diabetes and hypertension for three years.
She was hospitalized in late December and died on 2 January last, said the ministry's permanent secretary, Dr. Paichit Varachit, introducing the weekly report.
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