- Hello Jeff: I think it is a little to soon to make a
determination that the mystery enterovirus is unrelated to SARS. This
is just amazing. Yet, again, another mystery virus emerges.
-
- Patricia
-
- From ProMED-mail promed@promedmail.org
-
- Vietnam: Suspected Enterovirus Involvement In Childhood
Deaths
-
- (Reuters) -- At least 10 Vietnamese children aged under
3 years have died in the past month from an unidentified virus that is
suspected to belong to the enterovirus group, state-run media reported
on Tue 8 Apr 2003. The cases are believed to be unrelated to the flu-like
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that has swept through many countries,
killing 4 medical workers in Vietnam.
-
- The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said the 10 deaths were
reported among 11 children admitted into Ho Chi Minh City's Children Hospital
One. They all had high fever, diarrhea, fell into comas, and developed
respiratory and heart failure. The latest death on Monday was of a 16-month-old
child who died 11 hours after being admitted. Doctors were working to identify
the virus that they suspected may belong to the 'enterovirus' group, which
infects the intestines and causes paralysis, vomiting, and diarrhea, the
paper said. It quoted Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, the hospital deputy director,
as saying the patients did not respond to resuscitation efforts and died
quickly. Tests for known viruses, including the one that causes Japanese
encephalitis, were negative, he said. Officials and doctors at the hospital
declined comment.
-
- The first death from the mystery illness occurred in
early March 2003 in the same hospital in Vietnam's largest city, which
has a population of 7 million people. Enterovirus killed 50 children and
hospitalized another 253 in Taiwan in 1998, and deaths from the disease
were also reported in Australia in 1999.
-
- ----- ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org
-
- [An extensive outbreak of Human enterovirus 71 infection
was reported in Sarawak in February 2003 (see: Human enterovirus 71 - Malaysia
(Sarawak) 20030403.0815). The molecular epidemiology reported by Dr. Cardosa
and colleagues suggested that a new variant (sub-genogroup) of Human enterovirus
71 may spreading in the Asia-Pacific region. Human enterovirus 71 infection
is associated normally with hand, foot and mouth disease in children, but
occasionally can be responsible for neurological disease in an appreciable
number of children. Human enterovirus 71 was responsible for the outbreak
in Taiwan in 1998 referred to above, and presumably the same virus is suspected
as the cause of the current outbreak in Vietnam. A precise diagnosis is
awaited. - Mod.CP]
-
-
- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging
Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/emergingdiseases/index.shtml
Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
-
-
- From Patricia Doyle, PhD
4-11-3
-
- Hello Jeff...
-
- Regaring the Mystery novel enterovirus that is killing
children in Viet Nam:
-
- Thought this was interesting, although I do not know
where it fits in the puzzle. Nonpolio entero, second only to the common
cold as the most common viral infectious agent. Hum? Where have we heard
that before? I still wonder what the Polio stock virus audit showed. How
much polio virus stocks are missing? Patricia
-
- Non-Polio Enterovirus Infections
-
- What are enteroviruses? Enteroviruses are small viruses
that are made of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein. This group includes
the polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses. In addition to the
three different polioviruses, there are 61 non-polio enteroviruses that
can cause disease in humans: 23 Coxsackie A viruses, 6 Coxsackie B viruses,
28 echoviruses, and 4 other enteroviruses.
-
- How common are infections with these viruses?
-
- Non-polio enteroviruses are second only to the "common
cold" viruses, the rhinoviruses, as the most common viral infectious
agents in humans. The enteroviruses cause an estimated 10-15 million or
more symptomatic infections a year in the United States. All three types
of polioviruses have been eliminated from the Western Hemisphere by the
widespread use of vaccines.
-
-
-
- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging
Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/emergingdiseases/index.shtml
Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
|
