Vietnam
Health Ministry on Monday asked epidemic institutes to prepare for a new
subtype of “swine flu” virus that can enter country.
The statement was made by the ministry’s
Preventive Health Department after the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, or CDC, on November 23 announced three more cases infected with the
new subtype.
The virus has been named S-OtrH3N2, which is a
combination of the two subtypes of influenza A virus H1N1 and H3N2, the latter
found in pigs.
CDC has reported ten US people infected with
the virus. The first seven people had contacted with pigs before the infection
while the recent three did not.
Influenza A reached pandemic level in Vietnam
in 2009.
Since the virus was first detected in Vietnam
in May 2009, more than 11,000 people have been inflicted. Around 65 have been
killed including 13 this year.
With CDC warning, epidemic centers including
Pasteur Institutes nationwide have been asked to keep tight surveillance at
epidemic quarantine at borders and people with flu symptoms coming from the US.
People were recommended to have flu
vaccination, which would prevent them from influenza virus infection, or at
least make them infected with less severe symptoms, news website VnExpress
reported.
Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the National
Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said the institute’s flu control centers
around the country is taking samples of flu patients every day to check for the
new virus subtype.
Hien said local studies have not found any new
subtype of influenza A.
Nam Son, Thanh Nien News
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