Illustrative image (Source: nld.com.vn)HCM City (VNA) – An outbreak of has been reported at
Co Ltd in HCM City’s Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, with 30
people contracting the disease since November 17, according to the HCM City
Preventive Health Centre.
The centre warned that
the current weather is favourable for the spread of chickenpox.
Dr Nguyen Tri Dung, the
centre’s head, said that the company was provided with disinfectants for its
premises to avoid a further spread.
It also advised the
company’s staff to maintain hygiene, wear masks, and wash their hands regularly
to avoid transmission, he said.
It also told workers not
vaccinated against the disease to immediately get a shot, he said.
The city Department of
Health has urged the HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zone Authority
to take preventive measures against contagious at export processing
and industrial parks.
Companies there are
required to report to district preventive health centres within 14 days when
two workers become ill.
When a disease breaks
out, they are required to co-operate with health officials to prevent further
spread.
Truong Huu Khanh, head
of the infection and neurology ward at Paediatrics Hospital 1, said the
chickenpox season lasts from December to May or June.
People who have not been
vaccinated could get the disease, Khanh warned, saying that when one member of
a family is infected the remaining members could be too.
It spreads easily in
crowded environments, he said.
“The virus can be
transmitted from patients to other ones through tiny droplets when they have
not had blisters or red spots.”
The disease is more virulent
in adults than in children, he said.
It affects the foetus
when a pregnant woman contracts the disease within the first three months, he
said.
A person who contracts
the disease could develop skin infection and encephalitis and even die, he
added.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
