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WHO Declares Vietnam First Country to Control SARS

The WHO declared Vietnam as the first country to contain its SARS outbreak. Vietnam had five deaths from SARS after the virus spread in February through Hanoi's international hospital. There was about sixty three people affected by the virus. However Hanoi French Hospital closed its doors, there by reducing the rate of infection and keeping SARS from spreading beyond its doors. No new cases of SA...

Vietnamese Scientists Unravel Genetic Code Of Bird Flu Virus

Vietnamese scientists have successfully decoded the gene of the deadly H5N1 virus, an article in the local newspaper Youth has claimed.// If true, this news is really a shot in the arm in the global fight against bird flu and could herald in a better understanding of the variations and the mechanism of transmission of the bird flu virus. Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute and the Region...

Vaccination to fowl in Vietnam reduced the spread of bird flu

In Vietnam some regions are under the possible threat of bird flu infection and some cities are free from bird flu infection. //Bird flu samples collected from the delta regions of Dong Thap and An Giang have been tested negative to the bird flu virus strain. These regions and other regions are free from infection which were the main source of infecting grounds in the last years epidemic was free...

Financial Allowances Being Offered To Poor Vietnamese HIV Carriers

The Vietnamese Government which intends to stabilize the rates of HIV by the year 2020 has proposed to offer allowances worth atleast 4.1 US dollars to HIV infected individuals on a monthly basis//. It has also been planned to reduce the rate of HIV infection to below 0.3 percent by 2010. The current projected population of Vietnam approximates to nearly 82 million. ....Under a recent government...

Bird flu virus spreading in Vietnam

Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development has announced that five new Vietnamese provinces are infected by bird flu virus, Vietnam is under high threat of pandemic spread of bird flu virus as already more than 21 cities and provinces in Vietnam // are infected with bird flu virus. Though, Vietnamese scientists have revealed that they have decoded the H5N1 bird flu virus genetic cod...

Vietnam administers Bird flu vaccination to all birds

Vietnam has told the press that it has completed the vaccination for all the poultry across the nation. It has reported that 242 million // poultry were vaccinated across Vietnam. .. According to the department of Animal Health, which comes under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. ..Some of the birds were given a single dose of vaccination whereas others received a booster dose...

Chirps of Wisdom: Taking a Leaf out Of Vietnam’s Bird-Flu Sag

It’s learning time for countries, and Vietnam’s tryst with Bird-flu leaves telltale cues about best practices in bird-flu management//. Vietnamese Farmers appear to know much more about bird-flu and the lethal H5N1 strain, than any of their counterparts in Europe and Africa. Not surprising, since Vietnam tops the list of countries badly affected by the onslaught of bird-flu, which in 2003 had cla...

Link Between Vietnam Service And Prostate Cancer Is Statistically Insignificant

A report that appears in the March 2006 online issue of BMC Public Health focuses on the co-relation between men in the armed forces who served in Vietnam and the incidence of prostate cancer (CaP).// This co-relation exists since a defoliate called Agent Orange has been linked to CaP. ..However by Dr. Leavy and colleagues did not find a statistically significant link between the two. Between 20...

Rubella Outbreak Grips Vietnam

Vietnam is badly hit by a rubella epidemic, with more than 6000 people infected with the disease. Schools and factories seem to be worst affected//, said a Government health official. ..‘The number of people infected with rubella this year has reached 6,000,’ said Pham Ngoc Dinh, deputy director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. ..One of the largest outbreaks has been in Ho...

WHO Praises Singapore and Vietnam but Slams China With Respect To Tackling SARS

World Heath Organization (WHO) has praised the way in which the two countries Singapore and Vietnam, has tackled the issue of SARS but criticized china.// China threatened the rest of the world by withholding information and denying the disease outbreak in the critical early months. ..In its book WHO talks about how the virus affected the Hong Kong hospitals. It also talks about the way by which...

Foot and Mouth Raises Its Ugly Head in Vietnam

Nearly half of Vietnam is reeling under the onslaught of Foot-and-mouth disease. The disease has not spared parts of China, Laos and Cambodia and reports say that only a small portion of the cattle// and pigs are affected by the disease. ...."The situation is under control and not as dangerous as avian flu," said Vu Ngoc Tien, programme assistant at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation in...

Vietnam Considering Legalizing Sex Change Operations

Health Ministry officials in Vietnam said the country could legalize sex change operations. A proposal to this effect is to be sent to the government in September //and if cleared will allow people to undergo sex change operations legally. ....Nguyen Huy Quang, deputy director general of the ministry's legislation department revealed that people who choose to undergo this operation will still ha...

Vietnam Takes a Major Step to Prevent HIV/AIDS

According to a report in the Thursday edition of a local newspaper, Vietnam News, inns are to be allowed to sell or distribute condoms for the first time in Vietnam.// ..As a measure to reduce risks, Vietnam will allow the sales and distribution of condoms under a law on HIV/AIDS slated to come into effect from Jan. 1, 2007. Presently, condom sales and distribution are not allowed in inns as pro...

Vietnam veterans affected by post-traumatic stress

War can result in lasting psychological scars. This has been proved by a recent study on Vietnam War veterans.// ..This study was conducted by researchers from Columbia University and other institutions, who found that almost 19% of Vietnam War veterans were affected by post-traumatic stress disorder as a direct impact of military combat. However, higher and lower figures were reported by the c...

Vietnam Gets First International Standard Vaccine Plant

Vietnam’s first vaccine manufacturing plant meeting international Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards was inaugurated// reported the Central Epidemic Prevention Institute. .. ..The US$33 million plant, located in Hanoi, can make vaccines against hepatitis B, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, diarrhea, and typhoid. ....The Republic of Korean government loaned the project $28.4 million. .....

A Bird Flu Vaccine Produced In Vietnam

An institute in Vietnam, The Nha Trang Institute of Vaccines and Biological Products, has announced that it has successfully produced 5,000 doses of a H5N1 vaccine for// humans from chick embryos. ..The vaccine was tested on white mice, guinea-pigs and cockerels and similar reactions were observed.The observations have been sent to Vietnam's National Institute of Verification of Vaccines and B...

Over 50 Vietnamese Girls Faint Due to Mass 'Hysteria'

Over 50 Vietnamese girls were hospitalised after they fainted at school, and officials Saturday blamed the incident on an episode of "mass hysteria" //. ...."This is the first time such a thing has happened here in the district," said Luong Thanh Nhan, a policeman in Vietnam's southern An Giang province. "It was not the food or the environment which caused the incident." ....The director of the...

Vietnam Reports Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak

Hanoi: Vietnam went on high alert Wednesday following the first confirmed outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in over a year even as thousands of poultry were slaughtered in the// Mekong Delta. ....Chickens and ducks were slaughtered in large numbers in southern Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces, after tests on 2,000 poultry that had died earlier tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza...

New Bird Flu Outbreak In Vietnam

Vietnam went on high alert Wednesday following the first confirmed outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in over a year even as thousands of poultry were slaughtered in the Mekong// Delta. ....Chickens and ducks were slaughtered in large numbers in southern Ca Mau and Bac Lieu provinces, after tests on 2,000 poultry that had died earlier tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza... ..'W...

A Rehearsal To Deal With Possible Bird Flu Outbreak Conducted In Vietnam

On Sunday, 700 people participated in a rehearsal, dealing with a mock situation of bird flu outbreak,// in northern Quang Ninh province, reports Vietnam News Agency. ....They conceived a situation in which four members in a family are infected with bird flu virus, 80 people from 60 nearby households also contact the disease. It was also assumed some of them contacted the virus from dead fowls 5...

Cancer Fears Plummet Egg Sales in Vietnam

Hanoi: Sales of duck and chicken eggs in southern Vietnam have plummeted after tests showed that many had been tainted with large amounts of a carcinogenic agent//, media reported Monday. ...."Today we could only sell 50,000 eggs compared to 400,000-500,000 normally," Pham Thi Huan, head of a Ho Chi Minh City egg supplier, told the Thanh Nien online newspaper. ....The drop in sales as well as p...

Vietnam may Face Dengue Fever Outbreak: Ministry

Dengue fever is likely to resurface in Vietnam in April if the burgeoning number of mosquitoes isn’t curbed, the Ministry of Health has warned.// .. ..In a note sent recently to 64 provinces and cities, the ministry warned that Vietnam’s mosquito population – distributor of dengue fever – has increased dramatically recently... ....The ministry said that if a dengue epidemic surfaced, death tolls...

Bird Flu Reappears in Vietnam

Bird flu has reappeared in domestic ducks in southern Vietnam just two weeks after the H5N1 virus was declared under control, an official said Friday.// ....The latest outbreak at a duck farm in Vinh Long province, 140 km south of Ho Chi Minh City, followed the reappearance of the virus in northern Vietnam. ....Nearly 70 ducks were found dead at a farm in Vinh Long province last weekend and tes...

Nearly Thirteen Percent of Vietnam's Waterfowls Carry H5N1

Roughly 13 percent of waterfowls in Vietnam have bird flu virus strain H5N1, newspaper Labor reported Wednesday . ......Tests show that nearly 21.7 percent of waterfowls in capital Hanoi, 21.2 percent in northern Bac Ninh and over 7.6 percent in Bac Giang carry the virus, the paper quoted the Central Veterinary Diagnosis Centre as saying. ......To prevent the disease from spreading, Vietnam is i...

Man Contracts Deadly Bird Flu Virus in Vietnam

A Vietnamese man has contracted the deadly bird flu virus, becoming the country's second human case since late 2005 , a health official said Saturday. ......The 19-year-old man tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus early this week after being admitted to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Hanoi, a doctor there told AFP. ......The doctor, who asked not to be named, said the victim h...

First Human Case of Bird Flu Confirmed in Vietnam Since 2005

Vietnamese officials have confirmed the first human case of avian influenza since 2005, state media said Friday. ......The Ministry of Health has officially confirmed that a 29-year-old man has been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus, two days after the suspected case was reported, according to Vietnam News Agency. ......The man, from Vinh Phuc province, 60 kilometres north of capital Hanoi,...

Suspected Human Infection of Birdflu Reported in Vietnam

Health authorities in Vietnam confirmed Wednesday the possibility that a resident of a province in the north of the country could have contracted the lethal H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, for the first time since 2005. ......A fresh outbreak of bird flu has hit five provinces in Vietnam. A 30-year-old man tested positive for lethal H5N1 strain after being hospitalized in serious condition....

WHO to Investigate Hepatitis Vaccine Deaths in Vietnam

Viet Nam has suspended the use of a Hepatitis B vaccine manufactured by global leader LG group (the Republic of Korea ), after three newborn babies suddenly died after being administered with the vaccine. ......The Health Ministry has immediately halted the use of the vaccine nation-wide while they ascertain the causes of the infants' deaths. ...Since the vaccine is distributed through the Wor...

Bird Flu Outbreak Expands in Vietnam

A new bird flu outbreak has expanded in central Vietnam after it was first detected on a farm in Nghe a province more than a week ago, the government said Sunday. ...Nearly 1,300 ducks were found dead late last week in three household farms in Hung Nguyen district, 300 km south of Hanoi, and tests showed they were positive to H5N1, according to a report by the Department of Animal Health of Vie...

Dengue Fever Deaths Up in Vietnam

Dengue fever has infected almost 20,000 people in Vietnam in the first six months of the year and killed 21, seven more than in the same period last year, the health ministry said Friday. ...Higher temperatures and rainfalls have been blamed for the nearly 15 percent rise to 19,144 new infections from the mosquito-borne disease, which have been concentrated in the poverty-stricken southern Mekon...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

Vietnam plans to start its first human trial of a locally-made H5N1 bird flu vaccine as early as next month, using 20 to 30 volunteers, said health officials in the communist country. The drug trial, to be carried out with US government technical assistance, will be the latest of several global efforts to develop a vaccine for mass production, with research also going on in the United States, Eu...

Vietnam Bird Flu Death a Call for Action, Say Experts

Vietnam's first human death from bird flu in more than a year has highlighted growing complacency among farmers in fighting the virus that remains endemic in the country, experts said Sunday . A 20-year-old man from a province neighbouring the capital Hanoi was killed by the H5N1 strain a week ago, the communist government said, and four more people are known to have been infected with the virus...