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HCMC sets off alarm sound for dengue outbreak
SGGPFriday, April 22, 2022 21:28
HCMC and Southern localities have seen a rise in dengue cases over the past weeks, including severe cases and fatalities. The health sector issued a warning about the complex situation of this year’s dengue fever.
HCMC reported nearly 4,500 dengue cases, including 109 severe patients who are being treated in hospitals and two deaths by mid-April this year. It rings an alarm bell as the number of severe cases was only 38 out of the total number of 20,000 dengue patients in 2019. The number of dengue cases in this year is higher than the figure of the same period in 2020 and 2021.
According to Associate professor PhD Nguyen Vu Trung, Director of the Pasteur Institute in HCMC, this year’s dengue fever would be complicated due to climate change and an increase in the number of cases at the beginning of the epidemic season. The health sector needs to act urgently to reduce the number of severe cases and deaths and prevent large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases...
HCMC sets off alarm sound for dengue outbreak
SGGPFriday, April 22, 2022 21:28
HCMC and Southern localities have seen a rise in dengue cases over the past weeks, including severe cases and fatalities. The health sector issued a warning about the complex situation of this year’s dengue fever.
HCMC reported nearly 4,500 dengue cases, including 109 severe patients who are being treated in hospitals and two deaths by mid-April this year. It rings an alarm bell as the number of severe cases was only 38 out of the total number of 20,000 dengue patients in 2019. The number of dengue cases in this year is higher than the figure of the same period in 2020 and 2021.
According to Associate professor PhD Nguyen Vu Trung, Director of the Pasteur Institute in HCMC, this year’s dengue fever would be complicated due to climate change and an increase in the number of cases at the beginning of the epidemic season. The health sector needs to act urgently to reduce the number of severe cases and deaths and prevent large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases...
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