Friday, August 7, 2009

Vietnam: Alert H1N1 virus risk associated with H5N1

Friday, August 07, 2009

For A/H1N1 flu, WHO representative in Vietnam that, this disease starts spreading in the community. However, Vietnam must particularly note and alert when the virus HPAI H5N1 is still circulating and dangerous combination of H1N1 and H5N1 vaccine virus to create new more dangerous, in the more powerful.

Dr. Jean Marc Olive, head of the WHO representative in Vietnam also said that the ability to combine and H1N1 influenza season is easier. As flu season is also spread from person to person through contact, but H5N1 is spread from poultry to people.

Also in the Ministry of Health have reported that Vietnam has recorded 39 more cases positive for influenza A/H1N1, the total who have this disease to the 1043 positive cases, 1 deaths.

In Hanoi, Health Center, Tu Liem district confirmation 6-8 days, there have been 1 teacher High School Lomonoxop (Urban Area 2 My Dinh, Tu Liem, Hanoi) results positive influenza A / H1N1. Medical Center for Hanoi for Primary School in Nam Thanh Cong, Dong Da district had 1 case of a male grade 2 students are identified with positive influenza A/H1N1.

Starting from today, 7-8, units, schools in the province Hanoi will stop all activities focus students have until the following instructions by the Department of GD-Tel. This is the content of urgent which GD-ĐT Hanoi sent to the unit, through the schools, 6-8. The individual high schools have organized professional competition on 14-8 and preparing for the new school year 2009-2010 is conducted in accordance with the plan was proposed. During this time, schools should work in collaboration with parents of students to understand the health of school students and reported timely when unusual situations occur.

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