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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="news" width="50%"> January 30, 2007 12:28 PM </td> <td align="right" width="50%"> 
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> 75 Deaths From 4,862 Dengue Fever Cases In Indonesia In Jan Alone
By Mohd Nasir Yusoff
JAKARTA, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- A total of 4,862 dengue fever cases with 75 of them ending in the patients' death have been recorded in January alone in Indonesia, according to the Health Ministry report.
The cases occurred in 14 of the country's 33 provinces with the special region of Jakarta registering the highest figure, Dr Erna Tresnaningsih, the head of the ministry's directorate of animal-borne disease control, said.
Jakarta has the highest number of dengue fever patients, followed by West Java, Central Java and Lampung on Sumatera Island, she said.
She said in December 2006, a total of 5,400 dengue fever cases were reported in 28 provinces leading to 77 deaths.
In January 2006, the number of cases reached 18,941 in 33 provinces and leading to 192 deaths, she said.
The health ministry had taken several measures to reduce the rate of fatalities from the disease that always spread ahead and after the rainy season through the aedes aegepti mosquito.
"The key to its prevention is the environment and the people. If the environment is free of pools of water which can be used by the mosquito to breed and the people maintain environmental health, the disease is surely more controllable," she said as quoted by Antara news agency Tuesday.
She admitted that efforts to control the disease had not yielded the desired results because public participation was still relatively low.
Meanwhile in West Java, a total of 42 people have died in the outbreak of dengue fever in the province since early this month.
The province recorded 1,889 confirmed cases of dengue fever between Jan 1 and 29, Head of the Provincial Health Office Dr Yudhi Prayudha said, adding that the number of deaths rose sharply from only 27 in the same period last year mostly because the patients sought medical treatment only at a very late stage.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=244122
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> 75 Deaths From 4,862 Dengue Fever Cases In Indonesia In Jan AloneBy Mohd Nasir Yusoff
JAKARTA, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- A total of 4,862 dengue fever cases with 75 of them ending in the patients' death have been recorded in January alone in Indonesia, according to the Health Ministry report.
The cases occurred in 14 of the country's 33 provinces with the special region of Jakarta registering the highest figure, Dr Erna Tresnaningsih, the head of the ministry's directorate of animal-borne disease control, said.
Jakarta has the highest number of dengue fever patients, followed by West Java, Central Java and Lampung on Sumatera Island, she said.
She said in December 2006, a total of 5,400 dengue fever cases were reported in 28 provinces leading to 77 deaths.
In January 2006, the number of cases reached 18,941 in 33 provinces and leading to 192 deaths, she said.
The health ministry had taken several measures to reduce the rate of fatalities from the disease that always spread ahead and after the rainy season through the aedes aegepti mosquito.
"The key to its prevention is the environment and the people. If the environment is free of pools of water which can be used by the mosquito to breed and the people maintain environmental health, the disease is surely more controllable," she said as quoted by Antara news agency Tuesday.
She admitted that efforts to control the disease had not yielded the desired results because public participation was still relatively low.
Meanwhile in West Java, a total of 42 people have died in the outbreak of dengue fever in the province since early this month.
The province recorded 1,889 confirmed cases of dengue fever between Jan 1 and 29, Head of the Provincial Health Office Dr Yudhi Prayudha said, adding that the number of deaths rose sharply from only 27 in the same period last year mostly because the patients sought medical treatment only at a very late stage.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=244122