Vietnamese nurse who caused genital warts outbreak to face trial

A Vietnamese nurse can be prosecuted for providing unlicensed medical checks and treatment that caused infection to 103 children. Police in the northern province of Hung Yen have recommended that Hoang Thi Hien, 49, be charged with the criminal offense of seriously violating regulations on providing medical treatment that severely affected children’s health and physical development, they said Friday. The genital warts outbreak occurred in July last year with around 80 boys, most of them under two years old, being diagnosed with the HPV infection, prompting health inspectors and police officers to launch a probe to identify the cause. Genital warts are caused by some strains of human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can lead to vulva, penile and anal cancer. The disease is more often sexually transmitted....