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 23 and six during the
holiday.
Doctor Tran Phu Manh Sieu, director of HCMC
Preventive Health Center, told news website VnExpress in a Tuesday report that
“All the patients are in stable condition. Their living areas have been
sterilized.”
Sieu said doctors have not traced back the
cause of all the infections and as far as doctors are aware, those infected
have not spread the disease to anyone else.
Thus, the scattered cases are under control,
he said.
The doctor warned about some hot spots for the
disease to spread, including schools, industrial zones and workers’ rental
houses. The contagious condition spreads through respiratory system.
He advised people to keep better personal
hygiene and quickly have an examination if they develop a fever or a sore
throat, typical symptoms of meningitis, which is caused by the Neisseria
meningitides bacterium and can lead to brain inflammation and blood infection.
Between 10-20 percent of healthy people have
the bacterium in the fluid under their throat but the bacterium does not
necessarily develop into the disease.
Doctors in the city said the condition affects
children throughout the year, but more around the Tet.
Four other cases were reported in Hanoi and
the three southern provinces of Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc and Long An, news
website VietNamNet said in a report Tuesday.
All cases are among children, ranging in age
from 3.5 months to four years. They are all currently hospitalized and in
stable condition.
No deaths have been confirmed as having been
caused by the bacterium, but the condition has been suspected of killing an
11-month-old baby from central Vietnam on January 20. Doctors are still testing
and have yet to determine the official cause of death.
Thanh Nien News
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