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A patient at the Vietnam Central Tropical Diseases Hospital with a contagious brain inflammation condition. A patient in northern Vietnam was Friday confirmed to have a contagious brain inflammation that could be fatal. At least five such cases have been reported in Ho Chi Minh City since December last year. The 21-year-old...

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A child being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam’s Health Minister on Saturday visited areas in central Vietnam affected with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). During her visit at Ninh Thuan, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien called for washing hands clean with soap and inspected HFMD treatments...

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Child patients at HCMC Children’s Hospital 1 being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam is still under control, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a press conference Tuesday (October 25), despite the rising number of new HFMD cases. The disease has killed 137...

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  Official re-classifies the outbreak as death toll reaches 81 A child being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese health ministry is considering declaring the disease a pandemic, as more than 32,000 cases of the illness have claimed 81 lives...

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A doctor examines a child with Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) symptoms. The hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has so far claimed 70 lives from among 23,353 infected cases in 49 cities and provinces across the country, according to the latest statistics from the Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine . Nguyen...

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   Children infected with Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) being treated in a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the HCMC Preventive Health Center, the city has reported nearly 5,000 HFMD cases and 21 related deaths. The Ministry of Health issued new guidelines, on July 19,...

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A mother looks at a closure notice in front of Vang Anh kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday. Several kindergartens have been shut down across Ho Chi Minh City this week as a hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare sweeps the country.   Vang Anh nursery school in District 8 closed its summer classes after one of...

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  A 26-month-old boy died from hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in the central province of Quang Ngai on Saturday, bringing the province’s HFMD death toll to five. Pham Thien Trung of Tu Nghia District was admitted to the hospital with high fever, convulsions and difficult breathing. He succumbed to...

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Dogs and cats are the leading cause of rabies around the world. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted trough saliva that causes acute encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain. It is almost always fatal if appropriate treatment is not provided in time. Once the symptoms appear, the disease will always lead to death, in spite...

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  Young director finds meaning in confronting social prejudices, says no need to delay getting rid of them   A scene in a play of Dung doi den ngay mai (Don’t wait until tomorrow) project. HIV-infected actor Bui Tran Hoang (R) was not only chosen for his acting...

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