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  Vietnamese health authorities are seeking help from international experts in identifying an unusual skin condition — suspected to be caused by agrochemicals — that has plagued the central province of Quang Ngai since last year, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday. Nguyen Trong Khoa, deputy chief of...

  The US Agency for International Development (USAID) donated equipment used to detect tuberculosis to the Vietnam National Tuberculosis Program (VNTP) on Monday, as part of a US$4 million project. Early detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and resistance to the antibiotic drug rifampicin (known as...

  A Hanoian lost his left eye after a golf ball hit his face while playing golf, according to the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology. The hospital said Tuesday the man, whose name was withheld, was discharged from the hospital one day earlier, with his left eye blinded by a broken eyeball and cornea....

  The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has become the third province in Vietnam to report bird flu outbreak this year, the Department of Animal Health reported Sunday. The agency made the statement just over two months after announcing that the epidemic had been curbed, along with foot-and-mouth disease...

  A 26-year-old woman in the southern province of Soc Trang has become the second to die from the bird flu virus (A/H5N1) this year, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday. According to the ministry’s Department of Preventive Health, epidemic inspections showed that the victim had killed and eaten sick chickens,...

    Three high-profile Vietnamese patients who had successful treatment for unusual conditions this year are having their happiest Tet in a very long time. Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, is recovering at FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City after a 82-kilogram tumor was removed from one side...

A baby in Ho Chi Minh City being checked for fever, a typical symptom of potentially fatal meningitis.   Meningitis is spreading in Ho Chi Minh City with 11 cases of people being infected this month, most of them children. The cases have been reported at eight remote districts, five before the Lunar New Year on January...

  A teenage duck farmer in southern Vietnam has been killed by the bird flu virus this month, a doctor said at a meeting with Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Wednesday. Le Van N. of Hau Giang Province in the Mekong Delta was hospitalized January 10 with high fever and fatigue but died a day after,  the Tien...

  Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu Manh Sieu, director of the HCMC Center for Preventive Health, as saying that the cases were detected among workers...

  Nguyen Viet Anh, 5, before (L) and 110 days after getting a bone marrow transplant to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant...