Decrease in trend of some water-born diseases in urban areas of Hai Phong

ABSTRACT

Results of retrospective survey of some water-born diseases in people at 3 urban districts, Hai Phong city showed that the prevalence of low infected diseases were typhoid, hepatitis, malaria, haemorrhagic fever, eye disease; diarrhea, intestinal amebiasis, helminth were high infection but tended to decrease from 1997 to 2002. The prevalence of haemorrhagic fever and malaria on 100,000 people in Hai Phong city decreased by the year, reduction 7-49 folds compared to the whole country and there were only sporadic cases. The prevalence of the highest diseases was in the age of 60 (7.5%)