Two Zika Cases Confirmed In Vietnam

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Vietnam reports first cases of Zika virus infection

Source: Xinhua   2016-04-05 11:00:31

 

 

 

 

HANOI, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Health of Vietnam on Tuesday reported the country's first two cases of infecting Zika virus in southern Khanh Hoa province and Ho Chi Minh City, said local media.

The first patient is a 64 year-old woman living in Khanh Hoa's Nha Trang city, reported local VNExpress online newspaper on Tuesday.

She started fever on March 26 with symptoms of mild fever, headache, rash in two legs and pinkeye.

After two days of self-treatment at home, she was not better and went to Khanh Hoa Hospital of Tropical Diseases.

On March 31, test results in Nha Trang Pasteur Institute showed that the patient is positive with Zika virus.

The test sample was later transferred to be tested again in the Hanoi-based National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE).

The NIHE's test result on Monday showed that the female patient is positive with the disease.

Meanwhile, the second case is a 33 year-old woman in the country's southern Ho Chi Minh City's District Two. The patient started getting ill on March 29 with similar symptoms of typhus, conjunctivitis and fatigue.

The patient went to General Hospital of District Two on the same day. Two consecutive test results showed that she was infected with the Zika virus.

Later, the NIHE's test result on Monday also showed that the female patient is positive with the disease, reported VNExpress.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/05/c_135251141.htm

 

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Vietnam detects first two cases of Zika virus

The online Vnexpress newspaper quoted Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long as saying two women, aged 64 and 33, tested positive for the virus.

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A researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP File Photo)

Vietnam has confirmed the country’s first two cases of Zika virus.

The online Vnexpress newspaper quoted Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long as saying two women, aged 64 and 33, tested positive for the virus.

 

The two suffer from fevers, rashes and red eyes, it said, adding the younger woman is eight weeks pregnant.

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Most people who get the virus have no symptoms. Others may suffer from a mild and brief illness, but infections in pregnant women have been strongly linked to fetal deaths and to potentially devastating birth defects. That has been common in Brazil.

Vietnamese health officials have called for stronger surveillance to fight the virus and urged people to sleep with mosquito nets.

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Zika virus spreads to Vietnam with first 2 confirmed cases

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Vietnam’s health ministry on Tuesday confirmed the country’s first two infections of the Zika virus in Ho Chi Minh City and the central resort town Nha Trang.

The Nha Trang patient is a 64-year-old woman who started having a fever on March 26. She also suffered from headache and conjunctivitis and developed rashes.

She went to hospital after taking medicine at home for two days and did not get better.

Test results from the Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang on March 31 and April 1 both confirmed that she was infected with the Zika virus.

The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemology in Hanoi took another test and confirmed the result Monday.

The institute on the same day said another patient from Ho Chi Minh City was tested positive. 

The 33-year-old woman living in District 2 developed symptoms including rashes, fatigue and conjunctivitis on March 29. Two consecutive tests from the district’s general hospital found she was infected with the virus.

Both patients are stable. Initial tests on their family members and neighbors have all come back negative.

High alert

Vietnam has stepped up preventive measures for the virus after an Australian tourist tested positive after leaving the country on March 6.

The person arrived in Vietnam on February 26 and traveled through Ho Chi Minh City and the central resort towns Da Lat, Nha Trang and Mui Ne. It has not confirmed whether the tourist was infected in or outside Vietnam.

Aedes aegypti mosquito has been identified as the main vector of the virus. It is also known for carrying the dengue, yellow fever and Chikungunya viruses.

Zika was first detected in Africa in 1947 when it was considered a relatively mild disease until the current outbreak started in Brazil in May 2015.

The virus has since spread to more than 60 countries and territories, including many in the region such as Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea.

Brazil, Venezuela and Columbia each has linked three deaths to the Zika virus.

Brazil has also confirmed 944 cases of microcephaly and at least 198 babies with the birth defect who have died since October last year, Reuters reported.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/zika-virus-spreads-to-vietnam-with-first-2-confirmed-cases-60915.html

 

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Zika virus discovered in Vietnam

Vietnamese officials have detected two Zika infected-patients, the first confirmed cases in the South Asian country. Both of the patients are women and the younger one is pregnant, according to the state media.

A 64-year old Vietnamese woman became the first official case of Zika infection in the country, the health ministry said in a statement on Monday.

The woman, who hails from the popular beach resort of Nha Trang, started complaining of fever, headache and a rash on her legs in late March. Medical professionals subsequently conducted a series of tests to confirm the presence of the Zika virus, according to the statement.

The second patient, a 33-year old from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), also tested positive in a preliminary probe last week.

"She had symptoms including a rash, conjunctivitis, and fatigue," the ministry said, adding that the results were confirmed in recent days.

According to the media, the younger woman is eight weeks pregnant.

Most people infected with Zika display no symptoms. However, scientists believe there is a strong case for a possible link with the birth defect of microcephaly, a condition causing infected mothers to give birth to babies with abnormally small heads.

Zika marching on

Both patients are reported to be in stable condition, and no other cases have been detected, according to online Vnexpress newspaper.

Health officials have quarantined the homes of the womens' families and taken samples from neighbors for further tests, the paper said, citing head of Ho Chi Minh City's department of preventive medicine Nguyen Chi Dung.

The Zika virus is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also spreads dengue fever. Following reports of the current outbreak spreading, particularly in Brazil, Vietnamese authorities had urged people to sleep under mosquito nets to reduce the risk.

So far, the virus had been reported in over 60 countries and territories, according to the World Health Organization.

Brazil had been the hardest hit, with 1.5 million infections and 745 confirmed cases of microcephaly in children born to mother who were infected while pregnant.

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Vietnam reports first Zika infections, raises alarm

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Mosquitoes have infected two women with the Zika virus in Vietnam, health authorities said on Tuesday, in the country's first cases of a disease linked in Brazil to thousands of suspected cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect.

A 64-year-old woman in the beach city of Nha Trang and a pregnant 33-year-old in Ho Chi Minh City fell sick in late March, and three rounds of tests have confirmed they are Zika-positive, health officials said.

The sufferers are in stable condition and no further infections have been found among their relatives and neighbors, the health ministry said in a statement.

 

"After epidemic investigations, we consider the source of infection could be mosquito," Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said of the patient in Ho Chi Minh City.

She is eight weeks pregnant, Long said in a Vietnam Television broadcast, but gave no details of the first woman.

Health officials have quarantined the living areas of the patient's families and taken samples from others living nearby for further tests, said Nguyen Chi Dung, head of Ho Chi Minh City's department of preventive medicine.

The World Health Organization is working closely with Vietnam, a WHO official told a health ministry meeting to announce the infections.

Zika is carried by mosquitoes, which transmit the virus to humans.

The WHO says there is a strong scientific consensus that Zika can cause microcephaly as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that can result in paralysis, though conclusive proof may take months or years.

Microcephaly is characterized by unusually small heads that can result in developmental problems.

Zika has been endemic in Asia, with infection cases confirmed in Bangladesh, South Korea, Thailand and China.

Brazil said it had confirmed more than 860 cases of microcephaly, most of which it considers to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. It is investigating more than 4,200 additional suspected cases of microcephaly.

 

(Additional reporting by Mai Nguyen; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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