Vietnam warns of hand, foot and mouth disease spreading among children

HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnam has warned health officials nationwide to be on the lookout for an infectious disease that has killed 12 children in the country this year, a health official said Friday.
So far, Vietnam has reported about 2,800 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease, a common childhood illness that typically causes little more than a [...]

EV71 virus has caused deaths in Vietnam: health official

5 May 2008
HANOI (AFP) — A virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease has infected around 400 people in Vietnam this year and led to an unknown number of deaths, a health official in the communist country said Tuesday.
No precise data on cases and fatalities was available because enterovirus 71 or EV71 is not [...]

Vietnam battles cholera outbreak, over 130 infected

HANOI (AFP) — Vietnam, battling a cholera outbreak that has infected over 130 people, this week launches a month-long public hygiene drive while cracking down on dirty food stalls and dredging sewage-choked lakes.
The epidemic of the dangerous bacterial disease — the country’s third major outbreak since October — has spread in recent weeks from its [...]

Cholera spreads in Vietnam

Hanoi – A cholera outbreak that began in mid-March has expanded to 16 provinces throughout Vietnam and infected at least 121 people, health officials said Thursday. “The situation is dangerous, and the possibility that the outbreak will further expand to other provinces is very high,” said Nguyen Huy Nga, director of the Ministry of Heath’s [...]

UNICEF Launches Initiative to Provide Assistance to Children With Disabilities in Vietnam

NEW YORK, April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced today the launch of a fundraising campaign to raise $1 million to bring quality healthcare and education services to all children living with disabilities throughout Vietnam, including many that may be affected by exposure to dioxin left over from the [...]

Acute diarrhea epidemic ravages northern Vietnam

Acute diarrhea outbreaks have occurred in 10 northern localities, with Hanoi being the hardest-hit area, a local health agency reported.
Preventive Health Department Head Nguyen Huy Nga said on Wednesday that 85 patients had tested positive for cholera, with 44 cases reported in Hanoi alone.
Tran Thi Phuong Thuy, a doctor from the Hanoi-based National Institute for [...]

San Francisco vision doctor helps out in Vietnam

Medical technology is saving more premature babies in Vietnam, but that same technology puts the children at risk for a disorder that could leave them blind. See how one Bay Area(San Francisco) doctor is making a difference half a world away.
Three-year-old Nguyen was born premature in Ho Chi Minh City. The high amounts of [...]

Hidden Tragedy Of Under-reported Neonatal Mortality In Northern Vietnam

ScienceDaily (Mar. 31, 2008) — In Northern Vietnam, neonatal mortality is almost four times higher than the official figure according to a report published today in the open access journal BMC International Health and Human Rights. This under-reporting could mean neonatal healthcare in the country is massively under-funded.
Lars-Ake Persson, Mats Målqvist and colleagues at Uppsala [...]

Over 20,000 people annually die of tuberculosis in Vietnam

Vietnam has some 100,000 tuberculosis infections and 20,000 deaths caused by the disease each year, according to local newspaper Vietnam News on Tuesday.
Vietnam now ranks the 13th among 22 countries having the highest numbers of tuberculosis infections.
To curb the disease, Vietnam is intensifying vaccination, urging local people to keep hygienic and have healthy lifestyles, encouraging [...]

Vietnam contains acute diarrhea outbreaks

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HANOI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) — Vietnam has basically contained an acute diarrhea after it has hit the country for over one month, local newspaper Labor on Tuesday quoted Vietnamese Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan as saying.
    The number of new infection cases admitted to hospitals sharply decreased last weekend. Only [...]