The outbreak of an unknown infection in Vietnam still affects people
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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In Vietnam, an outbreak of an unknown infection is registered, which usually affects children and young people.
As foreign media informs, in this connection the Ministry of Health of the Republic asked WHO and the American specialists from the CDC to help identify the cause of the disease.
It became known that 100 people were taken to the hospital with signs of an unknown disease, 10 of which are in critical condition. Patients with a moderate course of the disease are treated on an outpatient basis. Despite the fact that the disease is treatable, 29 people have contracted it again. In total, 19 people died from infection. How Vietnamese doctors treat this disease, is not told.
Risk groups that are susceptible to infection with an unknown infection are children and adolescents. Its characteristic symptoms are fever, loss of appetite and skin rash on the limbs. With early diagnosis, the disease is well treatable. If the therapeutic measures are not initiated in the early phase, the patient may experience hepatic and multiple organ failure.
For the first time, the outbreak was detected in early April 2011 in the Bato region, which is considered to be the poorest area in the province of Quang Ngai. By October, the number of deaths decreased. The number of cases increased again in early March 2012: during the period from March 27 to April 5, 68 cases were registered, 8 of them ended in a fatal outcome. A total of 171 people were affected by the unknown infectious disease.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health of the republic visited Bato in October last year and in early April this year. Experts took samples of water and land, as well as blood and hair samples of the diseased, although they could not identify the cause of the disease