• HCMC seminar discusses spreading scarlet fever

    HCMC seminar discusses spreading scarlet fever

    26/02/2009 05:00

    Health authorities in Ho Chi Minh City held a seminar Thursday to discuss the spread of scarlet fever and measles throughout about half of the city’s 24 districts. The seminar at...

  • Mysterious disease in Quang Nam a lung ailment: doctors

    25/02/2009 05:00

    The strange disease that hundreds of gold miners in central Quang Nam Province’s Thang Binh District are suffering is actually a lung ailment, but its cause has not been pinpointed yet, doctors said Wednesday. Dr. Tran Cong Phap, director...

  • Conjoined twins divided in HCMC

    25/02/2009 05:00

    Doctors from the Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital No. 1 have successfully separated conjoined twins that were attached at the heart. The two babies were born attached from collarbone to the navel on February 5 in the central...

  • More rubella cases confirmed in southern metro

    24/02/2009 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Sunday confirmed five of six blood samples taken from students of a school in District 12 had tested positive for the rubella virus. The tests were carried out after one teacher and nine students of the...

  • Diseases affect more than 1,200 livestock

    24/02/2009 05:00

    The blue ear disease has affected nearly 1,200 pigs in central Quang Nam Province and southern Bac Lieu Province, while at least 10 cows have come down with the foot-and-mouth disease in the central Quang Ngai province. According to the Quang...

  • Vietnam rejects false reports on food exports

    24/02/2009 05:00

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued no report on harms to human health caused by cooking imported from Vietnam this year, the Vietnamese embassy and trade representative to the US announced Tuesday. The announcement was made...

  • UN agencies call for more vigilance against bird flu in Vietnam

    UN agencies call for more vigilance against bird flu in Vietnam

    24/02/2009 05:00

    A poultry vendor slaughters a chicken next to a cage of live chickens for sale along a road on the outskirts of Hanoi last Monday The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization...

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