The Hanoitimes - The Ministry of Health's Preventive
Medicine Department has asked relevant bodies to take measures to prevent a new
strain of swine flu virus found recently in the US from entering the country.
The requirement followed an
announcement by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stating
that three children in the state of Iowa had been diagnosed as suffering from A
/H3N1.
None of the children were
hospitalised, and each had recovered from a mild episode of febrile respiratory
illness. All three were in contact with one another, but none were known to
have been exposed to swine.
No additional human cases of
the virus had been detected in Iowa, and no evidence of sustained
human-to-human transmission existed. Surveillance was ongoing, the CDC
reported last Friday.
The new strain was reported to
be a mutation of the A/H1N1 virus, which caused an epidemic in 74 countries in
2009, and the A/H3N2 virus.
The National Institute for
Hygiene and Epidemiology and the Pasteur Institute were asked to strengthen
quarantine measures and monitor people suffering from flu, especially those
from the affected area. They will also keep a close watch on pneumonia cases
which were the suspected cause of the virus. No cases of the strain have been
detected in the country
The country now has vaccines
for A/H3N1, H3N2 and H1N1. Health experts said that flu vaccinations were
necessary because they had the potential to stop strains from mutating.
According to the World Health
Organisation, as of April 2010, more than 214 countries and territories had
reported confirmed cases of influenza H1N1, sometimes dubbed swine flu,
resulting in nearly 17,800 deaths.
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