Vietnamese Ministry of Health has issued a warning of disease in the aftermath of catastrophic floods which hit the Southeast Asian country’s central region.

A Community Health Research Development Institute (CHDI), Vietnam Viral Hepatitis Allliance and the Open University in Ho Chi Minh City will make debut a free hepatitis B and C testing and screening program in the country.

In these days, hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City admitted many malaria patients from the southern provinces, causing worry of the disease relapse.

Nine out of 10 malaria infections in South Korea occur in border areas with North Korea, a member of a provincial government disease control body said Saturday.