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Last Updated: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:45:38 Vietnam (GMT +07)
A 26-year-old woman in the southern province of Soc Trang has become the second to die from the bird flu virus (A/H5N1) this year, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.
Meningitis is spreading in Ho Chi Minh City with 11 cases of people being infected this month, most of them children.
The man who used to live the biggest tumor in the country and the women who suddenly got much older than their twenties are having the best Tet of their life.
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Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday.
Two Vietnamese women who had massive tumors removed by a renowned US surgeon early this month will go under the knife again as they are recovering well, a local hospital said Saturday.
A patient in northern Vietnam was Friday confirmed to have a contagious brain inflammation that could be fatal. At least five such cases have been reported in Ho Chi Minh City since December last year.
The man whose 82-kilo tumor was removed last week is now stable, doctors at FV Hospital said.
Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant to treat Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), an inherited connective tissue disease caused by problems with chemicals that cement the layers of skin together.
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