Faced with the risk of intrusion and spread of the Nipah virus disease - a particularly dangerous infectious disease belonging to group A, the Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health) requests localities across the country to urgently implement many measures to ensure food safety and proactively prevent epidemics in the community.
According to the Food Safety Department, the disease caused by the Nipah virus has the potential to be transmitted from animals to humans, mainly through bats, livestock, and pets; at the same time, it can also be transmitted through food and foodstuffs infected with the virus or transmitted from humans to humans through direct contact with secretions and excretes of patients. This is a dangerous disease, with a high risk of death if not detected and controlled promptly.
To proactively prevent diseases, the Food Safety Department requests the Departments of Health, Food Safety Departments and Sub-Departments of Food Safety and Hygiene of provinces and cities to strengthen information and communication to people and food production, processing, and business establishments. Propaganda content needs to focus on basic knowledge about Nipah virus disease, transmission route, early identification signs and preventive measures.
In particular, localities need to advise people to limit contact, processing and using food originating from wild animals, especially fruit-eating bats; not to use fruits or food showing signs of being lick, bitten or eaten half-finished by wild animals. The flexible combination of communication forms, especially digital communication, is emphasized to improve the effectiveness of community access.
In addition to communication, food safety and personal hygiene monitoring at food production, processing, and business establishments are also required to be tightened. People directly involved in food production and processing need to be regularly monitored for their health, especially those who come from or have traveled through countries and regions that are recording cases of Nipah virus.
The Food Safety Department notes that if workers are found to have abnormal symptoms such as sudden fever accompanied by headache, dizziness, cough, shortness of breath; have a history of contact with people or suspected of being sick; contact with abnormally sick and dead livestock, wild animals (especially bats); or have ever eaten food suspected of being bitten or gnawed by animals, they must immediately report to the local Center for Disease Control (CDC) for guidance and timely handling according to regulations.
In addition, localities are required to prepare plans, plans, personnel and equipment to respond quickly and effectively when foodborne disease incidents related to the Nipah Virus occur in the area.
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