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On the evening of June 5, the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) said that the results of gene sequencing were conducted by a team of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Children's 6 and the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU). showed that: genotype B1 of Enterovirus 5 (EV71) virus which is the causative agent of severe hand, foot and mouth disease (TCM) in children has been detected at 71 children's hospitals of the city.
All 6 samples of pediatric patients with severe symptoms of TCM being treated at Children's Hospital 1 were PCR positive for EV71 and all had genotype B5. This is the B5 genotype of EV71 that was first found in Taiwan (China) in 2007 and in Ho Chi Minh City in 2015, 2018. According to HCDC's disease surveillance data, the number of children with HFMD in Ho Chi Minh City has shown signs of rapid increase in recent weeks, with more than 200 cases in the past week alone.
In addition, according to the annual progress of the dengue epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City, the peak season of dengue fever will begin around the 25th week (about the next 2-3 weeks) and is expected to last until the end of the year. October every year. In the past 10 weeks, although only a few rains have appeared, but through the monitoring of epidemic prevention and control activities in wards and communes by HCDC, there have been 2 risk points (with larva) out of a total of 20 monitored points. account for more than 39%. This rate will be higher when the city enters the rainy season, if each locality and each household does not drastically kill mosquitoes and larvae to control the epidemic.
