Viet Nam "war" against Measles
Hanoi, Jia Xiang – hundreds of thousands of infants in Viet Nam aged nine to 11 months, will get an injection of measles. This Program
digalakan the Government of Viet Nam with a target of 200,000 infants during February to April 2014. This is in an effort to prevent the epidemic from spreading rubella
in that country.Radio Voice of Viet Nam (VOV) Viet Nam, Government-run since Tuesday (25/2/14) citing a broadcast by the Conference announcement online, about efforts to fight measles in capital Hanoi.
The goal of the campaign to keep the ratio of children who are vaccinated against measles at a certain age to be more than 95 percent. In the capital of Hanoi, about 60.000 children will be vaccinated against measles during the three-month period.
Director of Health Department of Hanoi, Nguyen Khac Hien as saying that a total of 500 suspected measles cases were reported in the capital Hanoi from the beginning of 2014. Of that total, 159 cases of them showed a positive test result with a virus. Hanoi plans to control such outbreaks in the two coming months. Meanwhile,
The Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Nguyen Tran Hien, Viet Nam said that the measles contracted in 24 provinces and cities in Viet Nam, and seven of them reported outbreak.
"the majority of the children infected with the epidemic of measles recently under the age of five years and are not vaccinated," said Nguyen Tran Hien, who cited Between.
According to him, among the children of Viet Nam, the ratio of children who are vaccinated against measles recently new 85 percent, leaving only 15 per cent of children who haven't protected the dangers of rubella,
. General Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of health of Viet Nam said that Viet Nam has reported eight people were killed and other measles cases 993 spread throughout the country since the beginning of the year 2014 to mid-February.[U1]