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First Vietnam province announces hand-foot-mouth epidemic

November 8, 2011 about Health

Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan on Monday declared hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)Â has reachedÂ epidemic proportionsÂ in the province.
Ninh Thuan is the first province in Vietnam to declare the epidemic, which has killed 138 people across the country.
According to the provincial Health Department, HFMD claimed three lives among more than 500 infections between January and October, or 24 times higher than the number of HFMD cases in the same period last year.
The HFMD outbreak has occurred in 54 of 65 communes in the province, with 40 new cases reported each week in the past four weeks.
In the whole country, HFMD has killed 138 people, mostly children, out of more than 77,000 infections in 63 cities and provinces this year.

Local media have repeatedly asked why the Health Ministry has not declared HFMD an epidemic so that more money and effort can be poured into disease prevention.
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien told the media that the ministry can announce a national epidemic only after at least two provinces do so locally.

By LÃª Xuan, Thanh Nien News

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