• Workplace health safety programs launched

    23/02/2009 05:00

    A new two-year project to improve working conditions and occupational safety and health in four provinces was launched in Hanoi Monday. The project has two components: a workplace occupational safety and health program and a “Workers’...

  • Ho Chi Minh City facing measles epidemic: health officials

    Ho Chi Minh City facing measles epidemic: health officials

    23/02/2009 05:00

    A health official sprays disinfectant in a measles-infected house in Ho Chi Minh City. The outbreak threatens to develop into an epidemic, say health officials. The Health Department has warned that Ho Chi Minh...

  • Vietnam records first bird flu death in a year

    Vietnam records first bird flu death in a year

    21/02/2009 05:00

    Hundreds of free-range ducks at a pond in the central province of Binh Dinh. Health authorities have warned such practices render the area vulnerable to a bird flu epidemic. Vietnam Saturday registered its first...

  • City acts on measles, rubella threat

    21/02/2009 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Saturday instructed District 12 authorities to take precautionary measures against measles and rubella to contain a possible epidemic. The district would also have to closely monitor preventive measures at...

  • Healer says he cures all for the saints

    Healer says he cures all for the saints

    21/02/2009 05:00

    Mai Trai uses a wooden cylinder to tap a patient’s spine to rid the body of “thorns.” A shaman in the central Hue city Town claims he can cure anything with a tap on the spine and a few...

  • Animal diseases sweep the country, people remain indifferent

    Animal diseases sweep the country, people remain indifferent

    20/02/2009 05:00

    Though livestock diseases are spreading nationwide, with 10 provinces reporting bird flu outbreaks and seven reporting foot-and-mouth disease, people do not seem to be taking them seriously enough....

  • Rubella strikes HCMC

    Rubella strikes HCMC

    19/02/2009 05:00

    A measles patient is treated in Hanoi. Measles, rubella and chicken pox have all hit major Vietnamese cities. Rubella threatens to “spread all over” Ho Chi Minh City while new measles cases in the...

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