Health experts from Asian - Pacific countries have gathered in Hanoi toshare experience and discuss measures to prevent and combat dengue.
Opening the Asia-Pacific Dengue Fever Prevention Committee’s meetingon April 19, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Health Nguyen Thi KimTien said dengue epidemic is not only the burden of a single country butalso all nations throughout the world.
Toeffectively take measures to prevent and combat dengue at national andregional levels, there must be a close coordination among membercountries and a support from the international community, Tien said.
During the two-day meeting, participants are scheduled to shareexperience and feasible measures to combat the diseases, evaluate theburden of the epidemic and discuss plans to research and developanti-dengue vaccines.
The World Health Organisation(WHO) estimated that about 50-100 million people are infected withdengue each year, of whom around 500,000 patients, mainly children, facecritical conditions.
In Vietnam, an average of 25,000 - 76,000 people contract dengue and hundreds of patients die of the disease each year./.
Opening the Asia-Pacific Dengue Fever Prevention Committee’s meetingon April 19, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Health Nguyen Thi KimTien said dengue epidemic is not only the burden of a single country butalso all nations throughout the world.
Toeffectively take measures to prevent and combat dengue at national andregional levels, there must be a close coordination among membercountries and a support from the international community, Tien said.
During the two-day meeting, participants are scheduled to shareexperience and feasible measures to combat the diseases, evaluate theburden of the epidemic and discuss plans to research and developanti-dengue vaccines.
The World Health Organisation(WHO) estimated that about 50-100 million people are infected withdengue each year, of whom around 500,000 patients, mainly children, facecritical conditions.
In Vietnam, an average of 25,000 - 76,000 people contract dengue and hundreds of patients die of the disease each year./.
