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Thursday, November 22, 2012

A/H5N1 flu outbreak in people at risk of re-


22.11.2012 | 15:24:00
Tran Thanh Duong, Deputy Director, Department of Preventive Medicine confirmed A/H5N1 flu risk further outbreaks in poultry as well as affect the entirely possible in the coming years. Speaking at risk communication workshop on influenza A/H5N1 held in Hanoi, morning 22/11, Deputy Director, Department of Preventive Medicine, Tran Thanh Duong explained, causes continued outbreaks in poultry and spread to humans is because if the authorities do not have the radical measures to control avian influenza.
 According to Yang, the trade of trafficking and smuggling of poultry disease in the past is great risk to the spread of the A/H5N1 flu outbreak from country to country, or from one region to another. Currently, according to the notice of the Department of Animal Health (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) Vietnam has discovered the C branch of the A/H5N1 flu virus, but have not recorded the spread of this new virus to humans.According to statistics of the Department of Preventive Medicine, from early 2012 to the present, A/H5N1 flu still appear scattered on both poultry and humans. In particular, in Vietnam, the cases of this flu has a high mortality rate.During 2012 continued with the flu outbreaks in poultry and has had four questions, including two deaths. Cause of A/H5N1 flu cases in Vietnam has a high mortality rate due to this virus strain circulating in the country have high virulence and the majority of these cases admitted to the hospital late. So to prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine recommends people to see the manifest as a sudden high fever above 39 degrees C or chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath, headache, sore throat, tiredness, need to immediately medical facility for examination and treatment. People need to avoid late admission, when severe disease that has led to a high mortality risk. From early 2012, the world has recorded 30 cases of A/H5N1 flu in six countries, including with 19 deaths.

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