An
11-month old girl from the central province of Quang Tri died from suspected
meningitis on January 20. If confirmed, it will be the first case in Vietnam in
2012.
The information was released by the Ministry
of Health’s Department for Preventative Health that quotes information from the
Nha trang Pasteur Institute.
Nguoi Lao Dong reported that the child started
to show symptoms on January 19 with scarlet fever and was administered
antipyretics.
She was later hospitalized at a local hospital
in Quang Tri province before being transferred to the Hue Central Hospital in
Hue City on January 20.
She died the same day. Initial tests show she
could have died from meningitis.
Symptoms of meningitis include sore throat,
high fever, headache, bellyache and rashes all over the body.
The disease is considered dangerous as the
onset of symptoms is sudden and death can follow within hours.
Meanwhile, city officials in Ho Chi Minh City
had earlier issued a warning about the possible spread of meningitis after
workers return to the city from their week-long Tet holiday in their hometowns.
Besides several patients in Districts 7 and 9,
the city Hospital of Tropical Diseases has reported that a 14-month-old boy
from Binh Chanh District has meningitis, and that others in the community had
contracted the disease.
According to Dr. Tran Phu Manh Sieu, head of
the HCM City Preventive Medicine Department, after the first epidemic cluster
was found in Furukawa Company in District 7, the health agency found one person
at a high school in District 9 with the disease.
The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute tested
51 people who had access to the patient, and of that number, 36 tested positive
with the bacterium Neisseria meningitis, reported VNS.
Dr. Sieu said the possibility of contagion was
high during Tet as people were travelling to and from their hometowns.
In other health news, an 18-year-old man who
tended ducks in Can Tho City died of H5N1 flu after having coughs and
high temperatures, becoming the first person to die of the avian flu
this year.
Danh Ni died on January 16 at the Kien Giang
General Hospital in his hometown.
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