China - 63 locally acquired cases of dengue reported in Guangdong province

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37 cases of dengue reported in China

PTI | Jul 20, 2013, 01.56 PM IST

BEIJING: Thirty-seven people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in south China's Guangdong province, the local disease control center said Saturday.

All 37 patients are from five localities of Zhongshan city's Huangpu township.

The Guangdong provincial disease control and prevention center said more cases are likely to be reported.

He Jianfeng, an expert at the center, said the patients had been hospitalized since July 16 with mild symptoms of muscle pain and skin rashes.

None of them had made trips to Southeast Asia, where most infections occur, indicating that the outbreak was not imported, state-run news agency Xinhua quoted him as saying.

He attributed the outbreak to rainy weather which favours breeding of the Aedes mosquito which causes dengue fever and added that the situation was under control.

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63 cases of dengue fever reported in S China

English.news.cn 2013-07-22

GUANGZHOU, July 22 (Xinhua)-- At least 63 locally contracted cases of dengue fever have been reported in the city of Zhongshan in south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said on Monday.

The cases have been reported in Huangpu Township since July 16 and more cases may be reported soon, according to a statement from the provincial health department.

All of the patients have been hospitalized. None of them have recently traveled to Southeast Asia, where most infections occur, indicating that the outbreak is not imported, it said.

Experts have attributed the outbreak to rainy weather that has resulted in greater numbers of mosquitoes.

The number of infections of the potentially fatal, mosquito-borne disease has been rising year on year. Experts have called for controlling the mosquitoes that transmit it.

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Spike in cases of dengue fever likely in province

Updated: 2013-07-26

By LI WENFANG (China Daily)

Dengue fever, a potentially fatal, mosquito-borne disease, will be on the minds of many Guangdong residents in the coming months, after a large number of cases were reported in July, said an expert with the provincial center for disease control and prevention.

Eighty-five cases had been reported in July by Monday, although none of them were serious, according to the provincial health department.

The figure represents a big jump from seven in the same month last year, with just three in July 2011 and one in July 2010.

Over the same three-year period, though, October has proved the worst month, with 185 cases in 2012, 22 in 2011 and 66 in 2010.

"Dengue fever occurs mainly between July and November in Guangdong," said He Jianfeng, an expert from the disease control and prevention center.

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