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Drug-resistant swine flu cluster on Vietnam train

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cluster of seven people infected with a Tamiflu-resistant strain of pandemic H1N1 influenza has been identified in Vietnam by a team including Oxford researchers.


Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.


Tropical Storm Parma headed to Vietnam

Tropical Storm Parma headed to Vietnam

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tropical Storm Parma crossed over the Hainan Island, China over the weekend and is now poised for a final landfall in Vietnam around 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.


Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base (AP)

Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- New environmental tests confirm extremely high levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where American troops stored the herbicide ...


Limited data suggest possible association between Agent Orange exposure

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new report from the Institute of Medicine finds suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing ischemic ...


Vietnamese boy, 3, dies from bird flu: doctor

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A three-year-old Vietnamese boy died Thursday from bird flu, a doctor in the southern city of Ho Chi Minh said.