>> More cases of A/H1N1 in northern region
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96 people have contracted A/H1N1 influenza since early this year, including one fatal case, said Dr Tran Thanh Duong, Deputy Chief of the Health Ministry’s Preventative Medicine and Environment Department, on February 8.
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So far, the infection has spread to eight provinces and cities, namely Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bac Giang, Long An, Tay Ninh, Dong Nai, Lang Son and Khanh Hoa.
In the meantime, reports by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) and Pasteur Institute show no new cases of A/H5N1 virus infection in the past week.
However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on February 2 that one more person in Egypt had contracted the A/H5N1 virus. The male patient, seven years old, was admitted to the hospital on January 10, bringing the number of A/H5N1-infected cases to three.
Since 2003, 519 people in 15 countries around the world have been infected by the deadly virus, with a total of 306 deaths.
