Health experts highlighted the role of maternal immunity in preventing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-related respiratory diseases in newborns at a symposium in the northern city of Hai Phong.

VOV.VN - Recent complex information about seasonal flu outbreaks in Japan and several Southeast Asian countries has prompted many people to seek out flu vaccinations.

VOV.VN- Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is not a new virus and has previously been identified as a cause of respiratory infections in children in Ho Chi Minh City, according to Dr. Truong Huu Khanh, former head of the Department of Infection – Neurology at the Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Hanoi has diagnosed a 10-year-old girl as the capital’s first measles patient this year.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 23 chaired a teleconference of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control with leaders of 63 provinces and centrally-run cities.

The website www.bac-si-giai-dap.com, a France-Vietnam cooperation project, was launched on October 13 in an effort to raise public awareness of less popular but serious respiratory diseases with high death risk.