Patients suspected of being infected with H5N1 in Bac Giang have a high fever

On November 7, Director of Bac Giang Department of Health Nguyen Huy Real said that after 4 days of fever free, TTH patients - who were suspected of being infected with H5N1 virus in Bac Giang - had a high fever again. The body temperature of TTH patients was 38.5 degrees C. Immediately, this patient was transferred from Bac Giang to the Institute of Clinical Diseases of Tropical Diseases (Bach Mai Hospital) in Hanoi to monitor.

The high fever again turned up the initial plan for patients with autism to leave the hospital on November 7. Before that, at noon on November 3, TTH patients were admitted to Bac Giang General Hospital with symptoms of high fever and shortness of breath. This patient is 7 months pregnant and lives in Viet Yen district, the new place announced by Bac Giang province is the translation point.

Families of TTH patients live in places that have been announced as translation points

After hospitalization, TTH was suspected of being infected with H5N1 virus, so it was given quarantine treatment at the department and took samples to Hanoi for testing. However, the test results of 2 blood samples of this patient all showed negative results and TTH showed signs of recovery, so the doctors planned to leave the hospital.

It is known that before being admitted to the hospital, there was a flock of unidentified dead chickens at home. Meanwhile, in Viet Yen and Yen Dung districts - where TTH patients' families live, the flu has caused illness and killed more than 3,000 poultry.

After transferring to the Institute of Clinical Medicine of Tropical Diseases, patients with autism will be closely monitored the signs related to influenza A / H5N1. On November 7, Vietnam recorded one case of the first patient in the epidemic season that was confirmed positive for H5N1. It was a male, 35 years old, in O Cho Dua ward, Dong Da district and died on October 29.

Le Ha