Due to concerns that wild birds could possibly spread H5N1 viruses, surveillance was conducted to monitor the types of avian influenza viruses circulating among the wild birds migrating to or inhabiting in northern Vietnam from 2006 to 2009. An H5N2 virus isolated from a Eurasian woodcock had a close phylogenetic relationship to H5 viruses recently isolated in South Korea and Japan, suggesting ...

Northern white-cheeked gibbon (N. leucogenys/ Nomascus leucogenys) is one of 18 gibbon species with currently status of Endangered Threat in the world. Northern white-cheeked gibbon is mainly distributed in tropical Asia. In Vietnam, Nomascus lecogenys is mostly concentrated in the north of the country. In recent years, Vietnam more and more is clearly confirmed distribution of the largest popu...

ISTORY st Vietnamese in the U.S. come from what was once Republic of Vietnam, known as "South Vietnam," ich had its capital at Saigon. Their government, allied th the United States, collapsed under military pressure m communist North Vietnam in 1975, starting a mass gration of Vietnamese to the United States as ugees. After Saigon came under communist control, ny ex-military, government officia...

Large numbers of young men were exposed to high-quality opiates for a relatively short time period during military service in Vietnam. This study examined the relationships of opiate and other drug abuse before, during, and shortly after their time of service in Vietnam with the subsequent 25-year mortality among the cohort of 1227 US Army enlisted returnees and their matched civilians previous...

The HIV epidemic in Vietnam began in injecting drug users (IDUs), but increasingly affects the general population. It is therefore important to monitor the spread of infection and, since antiretroviral therapy (ART) is now used more frequently, the prevalence of transmitted drug resistance. Sixty-three 1000 bp pol-gene sequences were generated from treatment-naive HIV-1 CRF01_AE infected patien...

In his preface to Vietnam Declassified, Thomas Ahern writes that when he left Vietnam in 1965, “I knew we were losing, but I had no idea why the Saigon government was in retreat in the countryside, and the VC ascendant.”(12) In this book, originally published internally in 2001 as a classified history entitled CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam, Ahern provides many answers, formed with...

OBJECTIVE We characterized post-infancy child growth patterns and determined the incidence of becoming stunted and of recovery from stunting. DESIGN Data came from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in four low- and middle-income countries. SETTING We analysed length/height measurements for children at ages 1, 5 and 8 years. SUBJECTS Children (n 7171) in Ethiopia, Indi...

This study was aimed at determining the molecular epidemiology of rabies virus (RABV) circulating in Vietnam. Intra vitam samples (saliva and cerebrospinal fluid) were collected from 31 patients who were believed to have rabies and were admitted to hospitals in northern provinces of Vietnam. Brain samples were collected from 176 sick or furious rabid dogs from all over the country. The human an...

1 South East Asia Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network, 2 Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam, 3 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Department of Microbiology, Bangkok, Thailand, 5 Oxford University Clinical...

Similar to many other countries worldwide, Vietnam is facing a challenge of an ageing population. This challenge is even more difficult to overcome because Vietnam is a developing country lacking an established aged care infrastructure and system. Many aspects of aged care have largely been relied on families of aged people due to a strong influence of Confucian philosophy. Looking after aged p...