More H1N1 cases

Here are H1N1 cases.

Vietnam’s health ministry confirmed Friday seven more H1N1 cases, as the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the pandemic was spreading at “unprecedented” speed and stopped releasing figures on numbers affected.

The six new cases in the south and one in the north took the country’s tally to 345 cases. 

The Ministry of Health also reported an increase in infections recently among people entering Vietnam on road, apart from those arriving on flights. 

The Center for Preventive Health in Dong Nai Province on Friday reported 17 locals of Viet Kieu Hamlet in Xuan Loc District had tested positive to influenza A (H1N1) and were being treated under quarantine at the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Xuan Loc General Hospital. 

The patients include 49-year-old Vu Duc Yen, an overseas Vietnamese from the US, his wife Chu Thi Sen and his son Vu Minh Tuan.

Fourteen other patients were identified to have had direct contact with Yen’s family. 

Yen’s family had arrived at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport on July 10 and two of their children had been quarantined as they had high temperatures. Subsequent tests found the two had contracted the H1N1 virus. 

Doctors of Xuan Loc General Hospital said they had quarantined seven others at Viet Kieu Hamlet for flu tests, after they recorded high body temperatures.

Twenty others were also encouraged to quarantine themselves at home to avoid the possible spread of the flu, which is also known as swine flu.