Vietnam on alert as common virus kills 81 children

Friday, August 19, 2011 - 03:02 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- Vietnam's prime minister has put the country on alert as an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease continues to surge, killing 81 children and sickening more than 32,000 people nationwide so far this year, officials said Friday.

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