Both patients were admitted in critical condition, suffering from respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, sepsis, multiple organ failure, pleuritis with pleural effusion and abscesses in the liver and soft tissues.
Statistics from HCM City Centre for Disease Control showed that in the past week, the city recorded 85 cases of fever accompanied by rash with 20 cases confirmed to be measles.
Health experts shared new understandings on the impact and costs of pneumococcal diseases in adults and the effectiveness of conjugate pneumococcal vaccines.
Experts from Việt Nam and Cambodia reviewed the implementation of the border quarantine agreement signed by the governments of the two countries in 2009, and identified gaps and needs in existing public health practices at provincial, national and regional levels.
