In the latest report, Vietnam had 3 swine flue cases. On May 31, 2009 the Health Ministry of Socialist Republic of Vietnam announced its first case of influenza A (H1N1).
On May 31, 2009, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology confirmed the first case of H1N1 infection after a 23-year-old Vietnamese student who had returned from the United States on May 26 was tested positive for the virus.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) gave instructions to supervise and quarantine the patient at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City; isolate and medically test the patient's family; list and monitor 189 passengers arriving on the same flight of UA869 with the student from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City at 10 p.m. on May 26, 2009.
In order to prevent further spread of the disease among the larger community, MoH required local authorities to promptly carry out the following urgent measures:
1. Instructing health facilities in 24 cities and provinces to closely monitor the health of all people who had arrived on the same flight as the patient within 7 days, including families of the passengers; daily report their situations to MoH's standing office (Bureau of Preventive Health).
2. Implementing the three MoH's recommendations of disease control at the community: wash hands with soap or antiseptic solution regularly, maintain hygiene at home and workplace, clean items with normal antiseptic chemical.
3. Initiatively isolate from other people on symptoms of fever, cough and sore throat, immediately inform local health centres of such symptoms to be timely treated, reducing fatalities from complication.
4. Contact hotlines of local health departments, Pasteur/hygiene and epidemiology institutes about any suspected case and of the Health Ministry (Bureau of Preventive Health) at 0989.671.115, Fax: 043 7366 241, Email: baocaodich@gmail.com.
5. Require the Provicial/City People's Commitees to seriously implement the Telegraph No 732/CD-TTg on May 14, 2009 of the Prime Minister.
The MoH has coordinated closely with the World Health Organization in Vietnam to monitor the disease's situation and deploy control measures to prevent it from spreading into Vietnam.
In the newest report, on June 1, 2009, Vietnam had two more Vietnamese American tested positive for the virus A(H1N1) by HCMC's Hospital for Tropical Diseases. A woman and her 9-year-old child who returned from a trip to the United States on May 25 were confirmed to carry the H1N1 virus and were being treated in two hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City. Being present in Ho Chi Minh City on May 16, 2009, Health Deputy Minister Trinh Quan Huan warned that the disease control is now extremely urgent.
According to HCMC's Health Department, the samples of these two patients were sent the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the HCMC Pasteur Institute for more testing. "However, the testing result at the HCMC's Hospital for Tropical Diseases is comletely standard to confirm the H1N1 infection", a doctor said.
 |
Health Deputy Minister Trinh Quan Huan (the middle person) urgently went to Ho Chi
Minh City to direct the disease control. Courtesy: vnexpress.net |
Health Deputy Minister Trinh Quan Huan said that the control and prevention of the disease was now greatly urgent. In the present situation, people should go to health facitities immediately for medical examination if they manifest the symptoms of influenza. At present, enough flu drugs Taminflu have been stockpiled to provide when necessary, he also added.
The World Health Organization said until June 1, 2009, 62 countries have officially reported 17,410 cases of swine flu, including 115 deaths in comparision with 21 countries, 1490 cases and 30 dealths (29 in Mexico and 1 in the US) reported on May 5, 2009.
Laboratory-confirmed cases of new influenza A(H1N1) as officially reported to WHO by States Parties to the International Health Regulations (2005)
Country
| Cumulative total | Newly confirmed since the last reporting period |
Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths |
Argentina | 100 | 0 | 63 | 0 |
Australia | 297 | 0 | 150 | 0 |
Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bahamas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bahrain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belgium | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Bolivia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Brazil | 18 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Canada | 1336 | 2 | 218 | 0 |
Chile | 250 | 0 | 85 | 0 |
China | 52 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
Colombia | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Costa Rica | 37 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Cuba | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cyprus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dominican Republic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ecuador | 39 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
El Salvador | 27 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
Estonia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Finland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
France | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Germany | 28 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Greece | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Guatemala | 12 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Honduras | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Hungary | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Iceland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ireland | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Israel | 19 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Italy | 29 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Jamaica | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Japan | 370 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Korea, Republic of | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kuwait | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malaysia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mexico | 5029 | 97 | 119 | 12 |
Netherlands | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New Zealand | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Norway | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Panama | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paraguay | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Peru | 36 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Philippines | 16 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Poland | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Portugal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Romania | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Russia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Singapore | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Slovakia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Spain | 178 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
Sweden | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Switzerland | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Turkey | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
United Kingdom | 229 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
United States of America | 8975 | 15 | 1048 | 4 |
Uruguay | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Venezuela | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Viet Nam | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Grand Total | 17410 | 115 | 1900 | 16 |
(Source: WHO)