A/H1N1 case Number 13

Viet Nam confirmed the country’s thirteenth case of A/H1N1 yesterday.

The latest victims are a mother and the younger sister of a 10-year-old boy who was earlier diagnosed with the virus. All three have been placed in isolation wards at Paediatric Hospital 1 in HCM City.
The parents and brother and sister of the 10-year-old have been isolated and are undergoing tests.
One of the 13 is the first instance of the disease in someone not in transit from an affected country, Dr Phan Van Nghiem of the HCM City Health Department, said.
Dr Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine and Environment Department, said the number of infected people was on the rise throughout the world.
He said there was a sudden increase in the number of affected people in Viet Nam in the past three days, from 5 patients last Friday to 11 at present.
This number includes the first person residing in Viet Nam to test positive for the virus after coming into contact with a family member, who had returned to southern Dong Nai Province from the US.
Nga said more than 22,000 people in 69 countries and territories throughout the world had contracted A/H1N1 flu. As many as 125 people in five countries and territories had died of the virus.
He said that supervision of the flu in Viet Nam had helped uncover and isolate thousands of patients who tested positive for the A/H1N1 virus, preventing the further spread of infection.
"Current treatment and preventative measures are suitable for the disease’s current status," Nga said. —VNS