- "Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have been filled
with thousands of children who have caught respiratory and digestive illnesses
due to the hot weather.
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- "Pediatric Hospital I reported that it had examined
nearly 4,000 children patients a day with some 85 per cent of them suffering
from respiratory problems, said a hospital doctor.
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- "Meanwhile, more than 3,000 children were brought
into Pediatric Hospital II on Monday. One-third of the children had respiratory
problems and 300 others had digestive problems.
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- "Besides, many children have been hospitalized for
brain diseases caused by the entero virus.
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- "The major reason behind the illnesses is that children
are sleeping all night with fans on due to the hot weather in recent days."
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- The deafening dearth of data in Vietnam may have ended.
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- The number of children alone would be cause for concern,
but large numbers of patients with respiratory and digestive illness and
"brain diseases" in Vietnam ring alarm bells very loudly.
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- Serious H5N1 testing is indicated, although results from
Quang Binh, Haiphong, and Quang Ninh have not been reported.
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- Bird flu monitoring in Vietnam is well beyond scandalous.
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