VietNamNet Bridge - Eighteen people, including 14 that shared a plane with a woman who had been found to have the H1N1 flu virus and quarantined in South Korea, have tested negative for virus, said Dr. Phan Van Nghiem from Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on May 22.
All passengers are measured their temperature in ariports in the country
They were allowed to return home, with two
The director of Ho Chi Minh Department of Health, Nguyen Van Chau, announced that seven passengers with high fever and placed in quarantine have also tested negative for the influenza A/H1N1 virus.
Acute diarrhea cases fall
For the last two days, no province has reported any cases of acute diarrhea, with tough measures and strict checks at dog meat eateries bringing a possible halt to the virus, said a health official on May 22.
There have been 832 cases of acute diarrhea, including 88 testing positive for the virulent vibrio cholera virus and one fatality, said Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment.
Tests carried out by the National Institute of hygiene and Epidemiology showed that people in the northern mountain
15 provinces in the country have acute diarrhea caused by cholera virus.
Epidemiologists said that it takes a long time to control acute diarrhea caused by cholera, and fresh outbreaks may occur due to poor hygiene conditions and lax behavior in food safety.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cao Duc Phat, to help reduce cholera cases, has ordered health authorities and relevant agencies to ban blood pudding, as well as the sale of live animals in cities. Animals without any clear origin cannot be traded.
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