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Dengue hemorrhagic fever & H1N1

Dr Dr Nguyen Van Kinh, Director of Institute of infectious diseases and Tropical Country said, this is the first two cases in Vietnam is recognized as the two patients with acute infection (H1N1 pandemic influenza and hemorrhagic fever – a clear manifestation of bleeding). After treatment the health of both the stable. The world also had at least seven cases of the two types of this disease.

“Patients infected with two types of service will be very vulnerable to severe complications, high mortality risk. So while people have expressed a fever should seek medical care immediately to detect the disease early,” Dr Dear said.

Also according to him, since last October, the number of patients with dengue fever tends to decrease markedly. There are between 50 and 60 people hospitalized, down nearly half compared to the October. However, many cases appear serious complications.

More Meningitis Cases Confirmed in Ozarks. 2 dead

Health Department spokesman Kit Wager says the latest case reported is in Christian County, where a woman was first admitted to an area hospital last Wednesday.

People close to the woman say she died Thursday. Wager did not confirm her death. The woman’s fiance says he has been tested and found to be negative, however Skaggs Hospital in Branson is holding him in isolation for further testing.

In Wright County, the state now confirms a total of three cases of bacterial meningitis, all in the same family. Wager says the mother is in an area hospital and two of her four children were diagnosed with the disease.

One of those children, a 2-year old, died over the weekend. The other child is a kindergartner in the Mansfield school district.