Vigilance urged for disease outbreaks during lunar New Year, festivals
The increasing demand for food and rise in travelling during the lunar New Year holidays and the festival season will pose a high risk of disease outbreaks.
Hanoi (VNA) – The increasing demand for food and rise in travelling during the lunar New Year holidays and the festival season, which lasts through the first months of the lunar year, will ༒pose a high risk of disease outbreaks, especially those transmitted through the respiratory and digestive systems or by mosquitoes.
The warning was made by Truong Dinh Bac, deputy head of the Preventive Medicine Department, at a meeting with the press on disease prevention during the festivals.
According to Bac, in the last months of 2015 and the first month of 2016, dangerous and newly-emerging diseases like MERS-CoV, avian flu A(H7N9), and Zika fever continued to be recorded in several regions of the world, and the risk is real that those diseases may enter Vietnam.
Therefore, local preventive medical centres have been instructed to promptly build, approve and implement disease prevention plans right from the beginning of this year.
They were urged to coordinate closely with medical clinics to learn about the symptoms of infectious disease, and to share information on disease developments, in order to detect early signs in patients hospitalised during the lunar New Year holidays and festival season, to prevent outbreaks.
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Medical staff vaccinate poultry. (Photo: VNA)
