AFP
HANOI: More than 1,000 people in Vietnam's north have become sick with acute diarrhoea, including about 160 cases of cholera bacteria, health officials said on Thursday.
No deaths have been recorded. The disease has affected 1,051 people in 11 cities and provinces, including Hanoi, said health ministry spokesman Nguyen Quang Thuan.
Some 157 people have tested positive for the bacteria that causes cholera, he added.
"Although patients are infected with the cholera bacteria, it's not yet enough to say they suffer from cholera," he said.
The American embassy in Hanoi issued a warning earlier this week against "a growing outbreak of acute diarrhoea in the northern part of the nation," saying "some of he cases have been confirmed as cholera."
State-run media in Vietnam has urged health officials to acknowledge the problem to help limit spread of the disease, which was initially reported in late October.
"It's difficult to control the situation as there have been conditions for the boom of the epidemic" Tuoi Tre or Youth newspaper quoted Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan as saying.
Infection sources include shrimp products, water, salads and street food, the minister said.
No deaths have been recorded. The disease has affected 1,051 people in 11 cities and provinces, including Hanoi, said health ministry spokesman Nguyen Quang Thuan.
Some 157 people have tested positive for the bacteria that causes cholera, he added.
"Although patients are infected with the cholera bacteria, it's not yet enough to say they suffer from cholera," he said.
The American embassy in Hanoi issued a warning earlier this week against "a growing outbreak of acute diarrhoea in the northern part of the nation," saying "some of he cases have been confirmed as cholera."
State-run media in Vietnam has urged health officials to acknowledge the problem to help limit spread of the disease, which was initially reported in late October.
"It's difficult to control the situation as there have been conditions for the boom of the epidemic" Tuoi Tre or Youth newspaper quoted Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan as saying.
Infection sources include shrimp products, water, salads and street food, the minister said.
5 comments:
I think the Vietnamese should tried to eat well cook food or well steamed food coupled with Khmer Prahok, because it contains the bacteria that might killed all the troubling cholera bacteria. They should do this for a few weeks because it take some times to kill the bad bacterial naturally.
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Oh, and the they should also drink well boiled water also for a few week because you don't want to put any new bacteria into your system at this time.
I wonder if the the extra rain this year may contaminated the water supply, but then again I am confident that someone have test it out thoroughly already.
They should stop agressive behavior and piping their mothers and daugthers! the hell lover evil Vietnamese!
HEALTH OFFICIALS: TELLS THE VIETNAMESE NOT TO EAT RAW DOG MEATS, OR SHOULD REMOVED DOG MEATS FROM THE MENUS!
It does hurt to try anything.
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