(18 Aug 2017) Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week, stretching its medical system.
The Ministry of Health said on Friday that the number of admitted patients represented a 42-percent increase over the same period last year, along with seven more deaths.
The country has recorded 90,626 dengue fever infections, of whom 76,848 are hospitalised and 24 have died.
The ministry attributed the rise of dengue outbreaks to higher temperature, more rains and rapid urbanization that promote the breeding of virus-carrying mosquitoes.
Doctor Vu Minh Dien of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, where most severe cases were being treated said Friday that the hospital had been seeing 800 to 1,000 people with suspected dengue fever a day, with some 70 to 100 of them admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Tran Thi Xuyen, 47, a fruit and vegetable seller in a small local market in Son La province, said she did not know how she contracted dengue fever which also infected her fellow saleswoman.
There is no cure for any of the four strains of the mosquito-borne virus which causes high fever, exhaustion and in some cases a vicious skin rash.
Patients most at risk of dying are the elderly, children or those of other medical complications.

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