VietNamNet
Bridge – A young teenage boy from Reu
Village in Son Ha District in the central province of Quang Ngai on March 11
succumbed to the bizarre disease that is plaguing the area.
Dinh Van Thap, 17, suffered from
thickening of the skin (keratosis) on palms and soles, stiffness in limbs and
ulcers on hands and feet, before he finally succumbed to the disease.
Earlier he had been transferred
to the Intensive Care Unit of the General Hospital in Quang Ngai Province, for
treatment of liver failure but did not pull through.
By February, two more patients
from Son Ha District including Dinh Van Hoan, 63, and his wife Dinh Thi Lo, 58,
were hospitalized for thickening of the skin (keratosis) on palms and soles,
stiffness in limbs and ulcers on hands and feet that looked like burns.
They have since left the hospital
for their homes and have left their fate to God.
Son Ha District is the second
district to report a death from the yet unidentified disease, after Ba To
District. In 2012, Ba To District reported 23 deaths from the bizarre disease
with 240 infected cases.
Since March, the district has
reported 10 more cases, including two suffering from a relapse within a year of
infection.
Health agencies have yet to find
a cure or cause of the disease.
Source: SGGP
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