Petechial fever and hand-foot-mouth diseases become more complicated

04:04, 12/04/2012

(ĐN)- Since the beginning of this year, the number of people infected with petechial fever and hand-foot-mouth disease in Dong Nai has increased five-six times from a year earlier.

(ĐN)- Since the beginning of this year, the number of people infected with petechial fever and hand-foot-mouth disease in Dong Nai has increased five-six times from a year earlier, according to the Provincial Preventive Medicine Centre.

Accordingly, 916 petechial fever patients and 908 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease have been reported in this period. The diseases has killed three people.

Besides, two meningitis cases have been confirmed over the last three months.

Reported by P.L