{"id":577889,"date":"2026-07-31T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577889\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:25:09","slug":"vietnam-dengue-cases-rise-in-ho-chi-minh-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577889\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: Dengue cases rise in Ho Chi Minh City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) recorded 995 cases of dengue fever the week ending July 27 (week 30), an increase of 20% compared to the average of the previous 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of dengue fever cases accumulated from the beginning of 2026 to week 30 is 23,481 cases.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!k5-Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb00256de-1e94-4ae9-a2ce-d45b63e794c8_700x466.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b00256de-1e94-4ae9-a2ce-d45b63e794c8_700x.jpeg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/b00256de-1e94-4ae9-a2ce-d45b63e794c8_700x466.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:466,&quot;width&quot;:700,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:32397,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/209311136?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb00256de-1e94-4ae9-a2ce-d45b63e794c8_700x466.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Image\/CDC<\/p>\n<p>Dengue is a disease caused by a virus spread through mosquito bites. The disease can take up to 2 weeks to develop with illness generally lasting less than a week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/OutbreakNewsTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Outbreak News TV on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Symptoms from dengue include fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, rash, muscle and joint pain, and minor bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>Dengue can become severe within a few hours. Severe dengue is a medical emergency, usually requiring hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>In severe cases, health effects can include hemorrhage (uncontrolled bleeding), shock (seriously low blood pressure), organ failure, and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) recorded 995 cases of dengue fever the week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-577889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}