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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Vietnam ups effort to prevent mysterious Cambodia disease

     12/07/2012
VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Health Ministry’s Preventive Health Department has urged authorities in all localities bordering Cambodia to strengthen their health quarantine systems to prevent penetration of the unidentified disease that has killed 56 Cambodian children...
 
..In order to prevent the disease from spreading to Vietnam, the department requested that the heads of the international health quarantine centers and local health departments, especially those in localities bordering Cambodia, tighten border the health quarantine system to detect the disease.

All concerned agencies must closely supervise people entering Vietnam from Cambodia, and if, or when, a suspect case is found, isolation can be applied to prevent its spread, the department said.

Health units should also coordinate with relevant agencies at border gates in examining animals and animal products that are brought into Vietnam...
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/society/24756/vietnam-ups-effort-to-prevent-mysterious-cambodia-disease.html