HCM City: New cases of communicable diseases slowly drop
New cases of communicable diseases in Ho Chi Minh City have gradually declined, but the figure stayed at a high level, said the municipal Preventive Medicine Centre.
A doctor provides medical checkup for a child patient with measles (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – New cases ofcommunicable diseases in Ho Chi Minh City have gradually declined, but thefigure stayed at a high level, said the municipal Preventive Medicine Centre.
From the start of the year to the end ofFebruary, the city recorded 8,480 cases of dengue fever, a rise of 264 percentyear-on-year.
Meanwhile, in the first two months of 2019,there were up to 1,206 measles cases in the city, compared to only two cases inthe same period last year.
The high number of measles cases is causedby a low vaccination rate. A survey of the city’s Preventive Medicine Centreshowed that 95 percent of the patients have not been vaccinated, with 50percent between the ages of 18 months and 10 years.
HCM City also recorded 368 cases ofhand-foot-and-mouth disease, a year-on-year rise of 43 percent.
Director of the city’s Preventive MedicineCentre Nguyen Tri Dung said the number of new cases have been on a slowdecline.
Accordingly, in late February, there were 570 and 130 new cases ofdengue and measles per week, down from 880 and 200 the previous month,respectively. –VNA
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus was reported in 19 cities and provinces nationwide in January, affecting 3,479 heads, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The number of dengue fever cases in Ho Chi Minh City in the first seven weeks of 2019 surged by nearly 250 percent over the same period last year, reported the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre.
Nearly 90 percent of measles cases reported in Vietnam can be traced to people who were either not vaccinated against the highly contagious virus, received no full vaccinations or had unknown vaccination status.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
A doctor provides medical checkup for a child patient with measles (Photo: VNA) 
