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Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Vientiane (VNA) – The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has announced the suspension of pork import s from Vietnam and other countries hit by the outbreak of African swine fever . According to the announcement, Laos will suspend the import of pork, including live pigs and processed products, from Vietnam. Relevant units will monitor illegal import at international, local and international border gates and international airports. Additionally, pork that has been smuggled or illegally imported into Laos must be destroyed. In 2020, Laos suspended the import of pork from China and Thailand after detecting seven outbreaks of African swine fever with 973 dead pigs in Salavan province. Most recently in January, Laos also halted the import of pork from Thailand./. VNA … [Read more...] about Laos suspends pork imports from Vietnam

Laos will suspend the import of pork, including live pigs and processed products, from Viet Nam. — Photo laotiantimes.vn The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has announced the suspension of pork imports from Viet Nam and other countries hit by the outbreak of African swine fever. According to the announcement, Laos will suspend the import of pork, including live pigs and processed products, from Viet Nam. Relevant units will monitor illegal imports at local and international border gates and international airports. Additionally, pork that has been smuggled or illegally imported into Laos must be destroyed. In 2020, Laos suspended the import of pork from China and Thailand after detecting seven outbreaks of African swine fever with 973 dead pigs in Salavan province. Most recently in January, Laos also halted the import of pork from Thailand. — VNS … [Read more...] about Laos suspends pork imports from Viet Nam

The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) announced on Wednesday that the city had just discovered a cluster of H1N1 cases in District 10, leading 20 students at an elementary school to take unscheduled sick leave. A report from the Medical Center of District 10 to the HCDC on March 16 showed an abnormal increase in the number of students taking sick leave at Vo Truong Toan Elementary School on the same day and the day before. A total of 20 students of the school became ill with symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue, and vomiting during the two days. Some students had a fever of up to 39 degrees Celsius. Doctors initially determined that the children suffered from a flu and randomly took six samples of them and sent them to the Pasteur Institute in the city to test for influenza. On March 17, the results showed that all of the samples returned positive for H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu. Since March 17, the school has not recorded any … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City detects cluster of 20 H1N1 cases

There is currently no vaccine or specific treatment for Marburg virus disease. Vietnam's Ministry of Health (MoH) has urged all localities nationwide to strengthen supervision and step up preventive measures to control the possible spread of the deadly Marburg virus disease. Marburg virus disease is rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which affects both people and non-human primates with a fatality rate of up to 88%, the ministry said in a dispatch to localities across the country, adding that it belongs to the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. Human infection with Marburg virus disease initially results from prolonged exposure to mines or caves inhabited by Rousettus aegyptiacus bat colonies, the MoH said. The host of the Marburg virus is the African fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus. Photo: Canva Once a person is infected with the virus, Marburg can spread from person to person through direct contact (through hurt skin or mucous … [Read more...] about Vietnam steps up vigilance against deadly Marburg

Illustrative image (Photo: Internet) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health has asked the People's Committees of cities and provinces nationwide, the Pasteur Institute s and hygiene and epidemiology institutes to strengthen prevention and control of the Marburg virus disease . The Marburg virus causes an acute infectious disease, which naturally resides in fruit-eating bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus). The disease is transmitted from animals (bats, primates) to humans, or from person to person through direct contact with bodily fluids, or with environments/objects contaminated by the bodily fluids of a person infected or deceased from the Marburg virus. The incubation period of the disease ranges from 2 to 21 days. Patients initially show signs of high fever, headache, discomfort, followed by diarrhea, abdominal pain, muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, and bleeding. Currently, there is no specific vaccine or treatment for the disease. The ministry stressed that this is a … [Read more...] about Ministry urges prevention of Marburg virus from entering Vietnam