Dengue fever is sharply affecting the Central Highlands region and central Vietnam with the number of patients in the first eight months of this year in these areas rising sharply compared to those in the same period last year, health authorities reported. According to the latest report by the Health Ministry’s Preventive Health Department, the country had more than 1,700 new dengue fever patients in the past week, bringing the total number of people contracting the disease in the first eight months of this year to nearly 40,000. Compared with the same period of 2012, the number of patients nationwide decreased by 45.7 percent, but in 11 central provinces the total cases of dengue fever increased by 2.5 times and in the Central Highlands the total cases rose as many as seven times. The ministry has sent teams of experts to central provinces and the Central Highlands region to help local health authorities to combat the disease, especially in such provinces as Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Quang Ngai and Quang Binh. According to Nguyen Van Binh, the department’s head, insecticide-resistant mosquitoes have recently appeared in many areas in those provinces, so higher contents of insecticide are required to be used in mosquito-spray. Therefore, the department will provide additional amount of mosquito-spray to Quang Binh and Binh Provinces where many hotbeds of the disease need to be suppressed as soon as possible, Binh said. Dengue fever is an infectious tropical disease that is transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito infected with a dengue virus. The mosquito becomes infected when it bites a person with dengue virus in their blood. It cannot be spread directly from one person to another person. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs.
More
The silent services at a unique barbershop in Hanoi
The shop owner and his wife communicate solely through text on their phones and pointing at posters
Read more
Planned establishment of ‘single ladies market’ in southern Vietnam arouses controversy
Many social media users are puzzled over what exactly the market is and what kinds of goods it sells
8 hours agoOfficer suspended over suspect’s death after police questioning in Vietnam’s Dong Nai
Vu Minh Duc and his friend came to the police agency where he was questioned by investigator Luu Quang Trung
2 days agoVietnamese nurse on vacation saves Indian tourist from sudden cardiac arrest
Her timely and accurate first aid helped save the man's life
1 day agoMarriages between S. Korean women, Vietnamese men triple since 2013
Vietnamese men are currently the third largest group of foreign husbands in South Korea, after China and the U.S.
1 day agoRabies immunization costs Vietnamese $8mn in Jan-Mar
“Rabies not only has a high mortality rate on humans, but also places a burden on the economy"
1 day agoHighlights
Vietnam, Russia prepare for President Putin’s forthcoming visit to Hanoi
President Putin traveled to Vietnam four times, with his latest visit in 2017
Photos
Artist paints murals on house to raise awareness of COVID-19 prevention in Hanoi
He drew the virus, vaccine, and earth on the exterior walls of a house
Latest news
Vietnam opposes China, Philippines for violating its sovereignty in East Vietnam Sea
Vietnam has full legal basis and historical evidence to assert sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago
Vietnam, Russia prepare for President Putin’s forthcoming visit to Hanoi
President Putin traveled to Vietnam four times, with his latest visit in 2017
Regent Phu Quoc among 11 best nature hotels in Asia: Michelin Guide
It was officially opened to welcome guests from April 2022
Foreigners enjoy Vietnamese culinary festival in Ho Chi Minh City
Various specialties, gorgeous cultural spaces, and art performances are the highlights of the festival
World Bank urges US$9bn investment in Vietnam’s water infrastructure
Only 17.5 percent of the country’s population has access to clean water
Ho Chi Minh City fells, relocates additional 219 trees for interchange project
58 trees would be cut down as they are old and cannot be replanted
In Vietnam, 12th grader returns mistakenly-transferred $19,700 to owner
He took two classes off so that he could visit the bank with his father and identify the owner
Chili prices plunge as China suspends imports from Vietnam
The price has fallen to VND5,000 ($0.2) from VND50,000-80,000 ($2-3.2) last year
Aerial surveys show US landfills are major source of methane emissions
At large emitting landfills, 60 percent had methane leaks that persisted over months or years
Ho Chi Minh City police bust prostitution, drug activities catered to foreigners at downtown restaurant
The restaurant employed 50-100 hostesses, mainly serving foreign visitors