VietNamNet
Bridge – The Ministry of Health will
invite experts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the
unidentified skin disease in Ba To district of Quang Ngai province in central
Vietnam.
“We have
decided to ask the Ministry of Health to ask assistance from the WHO and the US
Disease Control Agency to research the bizarre skin disease. International
experts are very interested in this disease and they are willing to help
Vietnam,” says Mr. Nguyen Trong Khoa, vice chief of the Agency for Disease
Examination and Treatment.
The
Ministry of Health’s missions paid visits to Ba To district twice in last
October and April 2012 to collect water and soil samples, as well as blood and
hair of patients for testing, but until now they have not defined the cause of
the strange skin disease.
According
to the Quang Ngai Department of Health, 166 people have been infected with this
disease, 8 of them died. However, Ba To district reports up to 19 dead
patients.
At this
moment, 39 patients are being treated at the Quy Hoa Leprosy Hospital in Binh
Dinh province. Four of them are in critical conditions.
Experts
from the Ministry of Health say that patients were poisoned because they
suffered from skin wounds and viscera failure, particularly liver failure.
Local
residents have got panic because of the strange disease.
Thanh
Ha
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