Floods caused by torrential rains over the past few days killed four people in the central province of Nghe An

 


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Floods kill four in Nghe An

Floods caused by torrential rains over the past few days killed four people in the central province of Nghe An as of September 21, the provincial Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Search-and-Rescue reported.

Tang Phan village in Na Ngoi commune, Ky Son district is isolated by floods.

Flooding also wrecked nine houses, swamped nearly 2,500 hectares of rice and food crops, and damaged 14 irrigation works and 40 kilometres of roads, with property losses amounting to 191 billion VND (8.4 million USD).
Although the rain has eased, Nghe An is facing a high risk of landslides at mountains and river banks.
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Biological Hazard - Vietnam, Province of Dong Nai, [Vinh Cuu District] : H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

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Biological Hazard

Vietnam

Province of Dong Nai, [Vinh Cuu District]

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Biological Hazard in Vietnam on Tuesday, 11 March, 2014 at 11:20 (11:20 AM) UTC.

Description
A 19,000-bird village poultry flock in the south of the country has been hit by H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No.12 dated 10 March to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). In Vinh Cuu in Dong Nai province in the south of the country, 5,000 village poultry died and 10,000 showed symptoms of HPAI on 9 March. The rest of the 19,200-bird flock was destroyed. The presence of the H5N1 subtype of the HPAI virus has been confirmed.
Biohazard name:	H5N1 - Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
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Status:	confirmed

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Biological Hazard - Vietnam, Province of Tien Giang, [Wondo Vina Co Ltd in Cho Gao District] : RSOE EDIS has udated a Mass Food Poisoning report in Vietnam in Oct. with a Return of Avian Flu, no other details have been made available

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09.11.2013

Biological Hazard

Vietnam

Province of Tien Giang, [Wondo Vina Co Ltd in Cho Gao District]

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Biological Hazard in Vietnam on Friday, 04 October, 2013 at 14:45 (02:45 PM) UTC.

Description
About 1,000 workers at Wondo Vina Co Ltd in Cho Gao District, southern Tien Giang province are being treated in many hospitals in the province after suffering from food poisoning symptoms this morning. Wondo Vina Co Ltd is a 100-percent South Korean-owned company that produces outdoor clothing including Gore-Tex jackets, down jackets, skiwear and golfwear, and employs more than 2,500 workers. According to the victims, after having lunch at the company yesterday, many of them developed belly pains, vomiting, diarrhea, and headache. Their conditions got worse this morning when they came to the company for work, and some of them passed out before being taken to hospitals. A company’s worker, Pham Quoc Khoi, said the foods in yesterday lunch include fried fish, pickles, vegetable soup, and fried fish balls. At 7:30 am this morning, the Cho Gao District Hospital was full and could no longer receive any victims, so many patients were taken to other hospitals. Many patients, due to critical conditions, had to be transferred to Tien Giang Central General Hospital for intensive treatment. All these hospitals said they have mobilized all forces and facilities to examine and treat the poisoned workers. Dr. Huynh Tho Man, director of the Tien Giang Central General Hospital, said this morning that doctors could not yet identify the cause of the poisoning. Therefore, all patients will be given fluid transfusion first and doctors will later apply further treatment to them on a case-by-case basis, Dr. Man said. Concerned agencies are working with the company to investigate the cause of the poisoning.
Biohazard name:	Mass. Food Poisoning
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. "Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures", see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
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Status:	confirmed

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Biological Hazard in Vietnam on Friday, 04 October, 2013 at 14:45 (02:45 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Saturday, 09 November, 2013 at 11:06 UTC
Description
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang announced Wednesday that bird flu has returned in its two communes. A statement from provincial authorities asked Tan Phu Dong District to deploy all possible forces to combat and contain the H5N1 virus among fowl in Tan Phu and Tan Thoi Communes. A source from Tien Giang’s Animal Health Department said they have detected sick ducks from herds at four families between the end of October and early this week. More than half of the 938 ducks were sick and 315 had died. The rest of the herds have been culled and disposed of, while the farms and adjacent areas have been sterilized. The department has vaccinated more than 12,000 birds belonging to 54 breeding families in the two communes. According to Health Ministry regulations, a province can declare the end of bird flu epidemic if no infections are detected 21 days after the outbreak was announced. People can become infected with H5N1 from direct or close contact with fowl carrying the virus, which is deadly among domesticated ducks and chickens. To combat human cases of bird flu, Vietnam has been vaccinating farmed fowl and treating infected people with the antiviral Tamiflu.

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Mass evacuations in Vietnam for typhoon Nari

by Staff Writers Hanoi (AFP) Oct 14, 2013

Vietnam is evacuating tens of thousands of people in the path of Typhoon Nari, state media said Monday, after the powerful storm left 13 dead in the Philippines.
Nari is expected to slam into central Vietnam on Tuesday morning, after ripping off rooftops, toppling trees and triggering flash floods in the northern Philippines over the weekend.
"Very strong winds are expected from later Monday. There might be heavy rains of up to 500 millimetres (20 inches) over the next few days," said Bui Minh Tang, head of Vietnam's national weather forecast centre.
Authorities in the central provinces of Thua Thien Hue and Da Nang were moving roughly 66,000 people in vulnerable coastal area to safety, according to the state-controlled Tuoi Tre newspaper.

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Typhoon Nari hits Vietnam, 122,000 people evacuated

HANOI | Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:22pm EDT

Oct 15 (Reuters) - Typhoon Nari knocked down trees and damaged hundreds of houses in central Vietnam early on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, state media said.
More than 122,000 people had been moved to safe ground in several provinces, including Quang Nam and Danang city, by late Monday before the typhoon arrived, the official Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported.
Nari later hit the Vietnamese coast with wind speeds of up to 102 kmh (63 mph).
Soldiers were sent to help people reinforce their homes and guide ships to shelter in Danang, a famous tourist destination, state-run Voice of Vietnam radio said.

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