An influenza outbreak at Hung Yen province early 2004
- Author:
Le Hong Phong
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Influenza
- MeSH:
Disease Outbreaks;
Influenza, Human;
epidemiology
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2004;14(2):78-83
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In early 2004, following an epidemic of avian influenza A/H5N1 in human, an outbreak of influenza A/H3 occurred in 5 communes at Hung Yen province with 887 cases and no deaths. This outbreak developed quickly but only in medium geographical range (inter-commune). Most cases are of school-age (from 5 to 19 years old) which comprise over 85% of the total number and focus mainly in primary and secondary schools. Owing to discovered early the outbreak, consisted of determinate the reasons and response to outbreak quickly and strongly and applied routinely to prevention the spread through the respiratory, and it also the good lesson to the prevention of outbreak
