Vientam swine flu death rate âacceptableâ for now: official
Published: 22/09/2009 05:00
Vietnamâs ratio of H1N1-related deaths to the infection tally is at âacceptableâ levels at the moment, a health official has said. | |||||||
The Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper quoted Nguyen Van Binh, deputy head of the health ministryâs Preventive Health and Environment Department, as saying the rate was still lower than neighboring countries like As of Tuesday, Binh noted that most of Also on Tuesday, Da Nang Health Department Deputy Director Nguyen Ut said Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, the central regionâs sole influenza A (H1N1) testing center, has run out of biological reagents to diagnose the virus. As all tests are suspended now, any person who has the fluâs symptoms will be given treatment for the disease without waiting for test results, Ut said. Early this month, Ly Ngoc Kinh, director general of the Medical Treatment Department under the Ministry of Health, had warned that While itâs awaiting new supplies that will take at least two months to arrive, the However, the locally produced materials wonât be introduced before next January at the earliest. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern that up to a quarter of the fatal swine flu cases in the Western Pacific regions were patients with no underlying medical conditions, AFP reported on Tuesday. By September 19, an estimated 25 percent of the 352 death cases reported in the region had no prior medical problems, the news source quoted the UN health agency as saying at its Western Pacific annual conference in In other regions. the proportion of swine flu fatalities with no underlying medical condition ranged from 20 to 50 percent, Takeshi Kasai, the organizationâs regional adviser on communicable disease surveillance and response, told the media on the sidelines of the conference. “That worries us very much. We are looking into it,” he added. WHO was also concerned that young adults were dying of swine flu, while small children and elderly people tend to be the main groups that succumb to seasonal influenza, AFP quoted The West Pacific region covers 37 countries and extends from Source: Thanh Nien, Agencies | |||||||
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