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Article: Vietnam prepares for potential bird flu outbreaks among humans
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 11, 2006
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Vietnam prepares for potential bird flu outbreaks among humans
HANOI, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Health Ministry has assigned
14 hospitals in major cities to closely supervise and promptly cope
with any bird flu outbreaks among people, according to local
newspaper Labor on Monday.
The hospitals and preventive medicine centers are to ensure the
operation of disease surveillance systems around the clock, and the
sufficient supply of facilities for treatment of bird flu patients.
The ministry said if the outbreaks spread, general hospitals in
provinces had to form an isolation area at their infectious disease
departments, and mobilize healthcare workers and equipment from first
aid and ...