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The information was released by the Ministry of Health?s Department for Preventative Health that quotes information from the Nha trang Pasteur Institute.
Nguoi Lao Dong reported that the child started to show symptoms on January 19 with scarlet fever and was administered antipyretics.
She was later hospitalized at a local hospital in Quang Tri province before being transferred to the Hue Central Hospital in Hue City on January 20.
She died the same day. Initial tests show she could have died from meningitis.
Symptoms of meningitis include sore throat, high fever, headache, bellyache and rashes all over the body.
The disease is considered dangerous as the onset of symptoms is sudden and death can follow within hours.
Meanwhile, city officials in Ho Chi Minh City had earlier issued a warning about the possible spread of meningitis after workers return to the city from their week-long Tet holiday in their hometowns.
Besides several patients in Districts 7 and 9, the city Hospital of Tropical Diseases has reported that a 14-month-old boy from Binh Chanh District has meningitis, and that others in the community had contracted the disease.
According to Dr. Tran Phu Manh Sieu, head of the HCM City Preventive Medicine Department, after the first epidemic cluster was found in Furukawa Company in District 7, the health agency found one person at a high school in District 9 with the disease.
The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute tested 51 people who had access to the patient, and of that number, 36 tested positive with the bacterium Neisseria meningitis, reported VNS.
Nguoi Lao Dong reported that the child started to show symptoms on January 19 with scarlet fever and was administered antipyretics.
She was later hospitalized at a local hospital in Quang Tri province before being transferred to the Hue Central Hospital in Hue City on January 20.
She died the same day. Initial tests show she could have died from meningitis.
Symptoms of meningitis include sore throat, high fever, headache, bellyache and rashes all over the body.
The disease is considered dangerous as the onset of symptoms is sudden and death can follow within hours.
Meanwhile, city officials in Ho Chi Minh City had earlier issued a warning about the possible spread of meningitis after workers return to the city from their week-long Tet holiday in their hometowns.
Besides several patients in Districts 7 and 9, the city Hospital of Tropical Diseases has reported that a 14-month-old boy from Binh Chanh District has meningitis, and that others in the community had contracted the disease.
According to Dr. Tran Phu Manh Sieu, head of the HCM City Preventive Medicine Department, after the first epidemic cluster was found in Furukawa Company in District 7, the health agency found one person at a high school in District 9 with the disease.
The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute tested 51 people who had access to the patient, and of that number, 36 tested positive with the bacterium Neisseria meningitis, reported VNS.
