New: Ministry of Health of Vietnam issues the List of Category A infectious substances

12:28, 11/07/2024

Circular 40/2018/TT-BYT has been promulgated by the Ministry of Health of Vietnam on the management of infectious disease specimens.

The List of Infectious Substances of Type A in Vietnam is issued together with Circular 40. To be specific:

No.	UN TRANSPORT CODE	NAME OF MICROORGANISM
	UN 2814 Infectious substances affecting humans	Bacillus anthracis (cultured sample) Brucella abortus (cultured sample) Brucella melitensis (cultured sample) Brucella suis (cultured sample) Burkholderia mallei - Pseudomonas mallei (cultured sample) Burkholderia pseudomallei - Pseudomonas pseudomallei (cultured sample) Chlamydia psittaci - avian strains (cultured sample) Clostridium botulinum (cultured sample) Coccidioides immitis (cultured sample) Coxiella burnetii (cultured sample) Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus Dengue virus (cultured sample) Eastern equine encephalitis virus (cultured sample) Escherichia coli, verotoxigenic (cultured sample) Ebola virus Flexal virus Francisella tularensis (cultured sample) Guanarito virus Hantaan virus Hantavirus causing hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome Hendra virus Hepatitis B virus (cultured sample) Herpes B virus (cultured sample) Human immunodeficiency virus (cultured sample) Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (cultured sample) Japanese encephalitis virus (cultured sample) Junin virus Kyasanur Forest disease virus Lassa virus Machupo virus Marburg virus Monkeypox virus Mycobacterium tuberculosis (cultured sample)^1^ Nipah virus Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus Poliovirus (cultured sample) Rabies virus (cultured sample) Rickettsia prowazekii (cultured sample) Rickettsia rickettsii (cultured sample) Rift Valley fever virus (cultured sample) Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus (cultured sample) Sabia virus Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (cultured sample) Tick-borne encephalitis virus (cultured sample) Smallpox virus Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (cultured sample) West Nile virus (cultured sample) Yellow fever virus (cultured sample) Yersinia pestis (cultured sample)

See requirements for transporting pathology specimens at Circular 40/2018/TT-BYT, effective from January 25, 2019.

- Thanh Lam -

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