Since Tet (Lunar New Year), several cases of cholera and widespread acute diarrhea have been recorded in the Mekong Delta Province of An Giang along its border with Cambodia.
Most of the people with cholera or acute diarrhea are border residents who often travel to Cambodia for businesses, while some are Cambodians, head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine and Environment Department, Associate Professor Dr Nguyen Huy Nga, said March 3.
Cambodian health agencies said there is a cholera epidemic on the Cambodian side of the border with An Giang Province.
Dr Nga warned that cholera could spread across the southern border provinces of Vietnam as cholera vibrios have been found in water sources.
