On February 3rd, Vung Tau General Hospital warned that the content calling on the community to share to help a 3-year-old child bitten by sea worms, who is in critical condition and needs urgent blood transfusion of the rare Rh blood type - is spreading on social networks, which is fabricated information.
Previously, an article posted on social networks was of great interest and shared by many people with the content that a child being treated in emergency at Vung Tau General Hospital needed rare blood transfusions, due to being bitten by sea worms. The family earnestly asked someone with the above blood type for emergency support. However, the contact information was not verified.
Grasping the above information, Vung Tau General Hospital has conducted a review, thereby affirming that it does not receive or treat any pediatric patients with the above situation. At the same time, warning that the above information shows signs of causing public confusion, posing a potential risk of fraud and profiteering from the community's kindness.
Vung Tau ward also said that sea worms often appear in the summer from April to August every year, and disappear when the weather changes. This species has the ability to cause itching and burning through silk when touched. At this time, it is almost very difficult to see sea worms; at the same time, the Vung Tau sea area has not recorded information that tourists have been attacked by sea worms.
