Many babies with meningitis

19 infants with viral meningitis were discovered at the Central Obstetrics Hospital (Hanoi) in the past 2 weeks. One child died, some severe cases were transferred to the National Hospital of Pediatrics.

The director of the Central Obstetrics Hospital Nguyen Viet Tien said that the cause could be sick family members visiting, newborns with weak resistance, so they got sick. The fact that babies with meningitis have been recorded in ages 3-7 days old, infections often occur in the summer.

Doctor Nguyen Van Loc, deputy director of the National Pediatric Hospital, said that the number of meningitis and meningitis in this facility is nothing unusual compared to every year, only scattered a few cases. There is an increased risk in early June, when the weather is very rainy and heavy . The disease can also occur due to complications of measles, mumps and rabies.

Doctors recommend that lying in the air-conditioner creates a closed, unfilled environment that makes the air unsure, easy to create conditions for viruses to penetrate and accumulate, which does not exclude the virus that causes brain inflammation meningitis.