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**Dial-up** · (This post was last modified: 04-23-2012 12:41 AM by Dial-up.)

Sounds like measles on steroids.

Link: World News MSNBC

Vietnam has asked the World Health Organization to help investigate a mystery disease that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in central Vietnam.

Le Han Phong, chairman of the People's Committee in Ba To district in Quang Ngai province, says patients first experience a rash on their hands and feet along with high fever, loss of appetite and eventually organ failure.
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**freebyrd**

call the WHO for help
yeah thats like fleeing from charlse manson into jack the rippers arms

**Dial-up**

freebyrd Wrote:

call the WHO for help
yeah thats like fleeing from charlse manson into jack the rippers arms

WHO is run by China.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91907 04-23-2012 12:35 AM

It's not a mystery.

Via IRIN Asia: VIETNAM: Mild disease turns deadly for children. Excerpt:

A dangerous strain of the typically non-lethal hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) has affected more than 21,000 persons - mostly children younger than five - killing 16 thus far in Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Health. “Despite being a benign viral infection in developed countries, the strain EV71 of HFMD is causing multiple deaths of children under five here in Asia. We are especially worried about South Vietnam, where lots of children are in informal [hygienically unregulated] crèches while their parents work,” Bhupinder Tomar, representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Vietnam, told IRIN. HFMD’s symptoms are fever, sores in the mouth and blisters on the hands and feet. The disease spreads by direct contact with fluids from infected persons and there is no specific treatment. Most of the viruses that cause HFMD are benign, but EV71 can be fatal.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2012/...break.html

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 04-23-2012 03:16 PM **Posts: 20,336**

WHO ‘concerned’ over deadly Vietnam mystery disease

The World Health Organisation said on Monday it was “concerned” about an outbreak of a mysterious skin disease in central Vietnam which has killed 19 people, mostly children.

More than 170 people have fallen ill with the unidentified illness, which causes stiffness in the limbs and ulcers on victims’ hands and feet that look like severe burns.

“We are concerned about this. WHO is very aware of this case,” said Wu Guogao, the organisation’s chief officer in Hanoi, adding Vietnam had not asked for help with an investigation into the outbreak.

The WHO has not been given access to any official reports on the issue.

“It is difficult to say the exact cause at this stage,” he told AFP.

The disease appears to have been concentrated mainly in Ba To district in central Quang Ngai province and the WHO said it had not heard of similar outbreaks elsewhere in the country.

Local doctors said they were waiting for the results of a recent Ministry of Health probe.

“The results of the investigation (are) not yet available. Therefore, we don’t know anything more concerning the disease,” said doctor Dang Thi Phuong, director of Ba To district healthcare centre.

“As far as I know, the Ministry intends to invite foreign experts to the area to help us know more,” she told AFP, adding that many of the victims were under 10 years old.

Media reports said about one in 10 of those infected had developed serious liver disorders, but said the infection does not appear to be highly contagious.

http://dawn.com/2012/04/23/who-concerned...y-disease/

**CountFapula**

the who's idea of helping you is telling you to move closer to the hole... no just a little closer... to the left. pow

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