HEALTH
Friday ,Nov 20,2009, Posted at: 15:01(GMT+7)
HCMC sees rash of measles victims

Children’s hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City said November 19 said the incidence of measles among kids is rising.

Children Hospital II has admitted 158 toddlers with the disease since the beginning of November, with one of them, a 10-month-old baby from Go Vap District, dying.

It has treated 881 patients so far this year.

The city’s Tropical Diseases hospital received more than 50 children with measles on November 19.

By T. Lam - Translated by Uyen Phuong
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