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Updated April, 02 2010 08:53:50
Dengue fever on the rise in northern, central provinces
HA NOI ? Dengue fever is on the rise in the central and northern localities, reports the Ministry of Health.
In Da Nang, about 600 people have been stricken with the mosquito-borne disease so far this year, 10 times higher than for the first three months of last year.
Almost 100 incidents of the disease had been reported in Ha Noi with one fatality - in Tan Minh Commune, Soc Son District, said the Preventive Health Centre's Disease Control Department director, Le Duc Tuyen.
The centre was planning to prevent any spread of the disease in communes, clinics and schools through a clean up of the environment, and raising public awareness about the threat, the director said.
But the Health Ministry's Preventive Health and Environment Department said that although 7,300 incidents of dengue fever were confirmed throughout Viet Nam to March, the figure was 28 per cent less than for the same three months of last year.
At least three of those infected had died.
Clinical symptoms of the disease had changed and patients needed to have their blood tested to confirm infection, explained Da Nang Preventive Health Centre director Ton That Thanh.
The national target programme for the prevention of dengue fever from 2006-10 had been re-launched this year, said the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology's Insect and Animal Department head, Tran Vu Phong.
Its focus would be to improve the skills of all medical workers.
Stagnant water enables the mosquitoes to reproduce and develop and is a major reason for the spread of the disease; people are encouraged to clean around their dwellings and spray mosquito killer. ? VN
Updated April, 02 2010 08:53:50
Dengue fever on the rise in northern, central provinces
HA NOI ? Dengue fever is on the rise in the central and northern localities, reports the Ministry of Health.
In Da Nang, about 600 people have been stricken with the mosquito-borne disease so far this year, 10 times higher than for the first three months of last year.
Almost 100 incidents of the disease had been reported in Ha Noi with one fatality - in Tan Minh Commune, Soc Son District, said the Preventive Health Centre's Disease Control Department director, Le Duc Tuyen.
The centre was planning to prevent any spread of the disease in communes, clinics and schools through a clean up of the environment, and raising public awareness about the threat, the director said.
But the Health Ministry's Preventive Health and Environment Department said that although 7,300 incidents of dengue fever were confirmed throughout Viet Nam to March, the figure was 28 per cent less than for the same three months of last year.
At least three of those infected had died.
Clinical symptoms of the disease had changed and patients needed to have their blood tested to confirm infection, explained Da Nang Preventive Health Centre director Ton That Thanh.
The national target programme for the prevention of dengue fever from 2006-10 had been re-launched this year, said the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology's Insect and Animal Department head, Tran Vu Phong.
Its focus would be to improve the skills of all medical workers.
Stagnant water enables the mosquitoes to reproduce and develop and is a major reason for the spread of the disease; people are encouraged to clean around their dwellings and spray mosquito killer. ? VN
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