Cambodia: Dengue cases 2009

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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/03/content_11302480.htm

Cambodian gov't alerts public over upcoming peak of dengue fever
www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-03 08:57:48

PHNOM PENH, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government has reminded the public to caution against the upcoming peak of dengue fever, which has killed two people nationwide so far this year, national media said on Sunday.

The rainy season started earlier this year, which fueled the spread of the epidemic and brought the number of infected cases to 871 during the first four months, almost two times the number in the same period of last year, according to the Chinese-language newspaper the Jian Hua Daily on Sunday.

Usually, children aged from one to nine years were the most fragile group to the illness, Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng was quoted as saying in the report. He added that some 71 percent of the contaminated cases went to children.

"People should frequently clean their water-saving tanks, kill mosquito eggs in their tanks with pesticide and sleep in anti-mosquito nets," said the minister.

According to official figures, in 2007, a rampant year for the disease in the kingdom, 407 children died of it, out of a total of 39,851 infected cases of minors.

 

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Cambodian dengue fever patients rise sharply
www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-06 08:44:27
PHNOM PENH, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue fever patients of Cambodia rose to 960 until May 4, over 750 until the end of April, or an increase of over 200 in less than a week, national media said on Wednesday.

The 960 victims were mainly spotted in Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham province and Kandal province, Chinese-language daily newspaper the Commercial News quoted officials of the Ministry of Health as saying.

So far this year, only two people died of the disease all over the country, according to ministry.

However, it was still early for the government to issue epidemic warning, as officials remained vigilant to watch the expansion of the illness, as well as guide people to kill mosquitoes and keep their water tanks clean, it added.

In 2008, 65 people died of dengue fever, out of a total of 9,542 infected cases in Cambodia.

 

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Cambodian dengue fever patients rise sharply
www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-25 10:58:30

PHNOM PENH, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue fever patients of Cambodia rose to about 1,500 until May, 960 more than the same period of last year, or an increase of about 50 percent, national media said on Monday.

The 1,500 victims were mainly spotted in Phnom Penh with 343 cases, Kampong Cham province 259 cases and Kandal province 161 cases, Chinese-language daily newspaper the Commercial News quoted officials of the Ministry of Health (MoH) as saying.

Moreover, three people died of the disease all over the kingdom, two of them died in the early of the year and the third in May, according to MoH.

The MoH has already received the assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB), and plans to buy some mosquitocide and propaganda material to enhance the public understanding, according to MoH.

The rainy season from May to November is the period of the outbreak of the dengue fever nationwide. Usually, children under the 15 years old were the most fragile group to be attacked by the illness, and some 71 percent of the contaminated cases used to be children.

The government has called on the people to clean their water-saving tanks frequently, kill mosquito eggs in their tanks with pesticide, and sleep in anti-mosquito nets.

According to official figures, in 2007, a rampant year for the disease in the kingdom, 407 children died of it, out of a total of 39,851 infected cases of minors. And in last year there were 9542 people infected with the disease in the kingdom, out of them 65 were killed.
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3 dengue deaths so far this year: govt
Written by Sam Rith
Friday, 29 May 2009

GOVERNMENT health officials say they are alarmed by a rise of dengue fever across Cambodia, saying that figures for the first 19 weeks of 2009 show a 50 percent increase compared with the same period last year.

Ngan Chantha, head of the National Anti-Dengue Program and deputy director of the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, said an early wet season had prompted a rash of dengue infections, with 1,419 cases recorded so far this year.

"We are still alarmed about an outbreak of dengue fever," he said. "The number of infections has increased because [it has been raining] continuously."

In addition to the unusually wet weather, he said the spike in dengue infections this year was a result of poor hygiene in affected areas. Ngan Chantha said Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham and Kandal were the regions hit hardest by the disease.

But he said that although there was a rise in reported dengue infections, more effective treatment meant the first 19 weeks of the year had seen just three deaths, down from nine in the same period in 2008. "We have enough health supplies to treat dengue patients quickly," he said.

So far this year, he added, the Ministry of Health had already distributed 120 tonnes of Abate - a chemical used to kill mosquito larvae - and that, beginning next month, it was aiming to distribute an additional 100 tonnes of Abate, serum and medicines to target areas throughout the country.

 

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Dengue fever cases double in 2009
Written by Khuon Leakhana
Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Health officials say the dengue numbers are a return to normal but remain a serious problem.

THE Ministry of Health hosted its annual meeting on dengue fever Tuesday morning in front of Wat Botum in Phnom Penh, where it released new statistics and launched an advertising campaign to fight the disease.

Compared with recent years, the presentations at the meeting described 2009 as a fairly typical dengue season after a mild year in 2008 and a particularly severe one in 2007.

Dengue fever is rarely fatal in adults, but children are more susceptible to hemorrhagic dengue, which can kill, according to the Ministry of Health.

So far this year, 3,333 children have been treated for dengue at public hospitals in Cambodia, a sharp increase from last year, when there were only 1,811 child cases but not nearly as bad as the first six months of 2007 when 12,858 people were treated.

"Dengue fever is not increasing or decreasing, but it still causes a lot of concern for us because it is a big public health problem in Cambodia," said Ngan Chantha, director of the Anti-Dengue Programme at the Ministry of Health.

Each year the Anti-Dengue Programme reinvents the advertising campaign and introduces it at the meeting, Ngan Chantha said, adding that this year's slogan is "fight dengue fever to protect yourself and your family".

Duong Socheat, director of the National Malaria Centre, which deals with dengue, said the worst weeks for dengue fever are in August, and that families need to learn about the disease and make sure that young children with dengue are treated by doctors.

"Parents have to pay more attention to the care of their children and prevent them from being infected by this disease," he said.

 

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Govt reports rise in cases of dengue fever
Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:03 Khoun Leakhana

AS reports of drug-resistant malaria in western Cambodia gather increasing attention, experts from the National Center for Malaria (NCM) on Monday reported an increase in dengue fever cases throughout the Kingdom in 2009.

In the first 31 weeks of 2009, according to the NCM, 7,227 people in Cambodia were infected with dengue fever, compared with just 4,261 people infected during the same period in 2008. The good news was that only 19 people died from the mosquito-borne malady during the first 31 weeks of this year, as opposed to 40 the previous year.

"Dengue fever in Cambodia has not reached a state of emergency at the moment, though it is drawing a lot of attention," said Ngan Chantham, deputy director of the National Center for Malaria and director of the National Anti-Dengue Programme (NADP).

Large-scale outbreaks of dengue fever typically occur once every two or three years, and specialists from the NADP said that the next big dengue outbreak may happen in 2010. They are cautiously optimistic, however, that they are prepared to deal with it.

Though they will continue to monitor this year's increase in dengue cases, Ngan Chantham said the NADP was pleased to see the death rate drop, attributing this decline to prevention efforts taking place throughout Cambodia. The NADP is in the process of distributing around 90 tonnes of pesticides, used to kill mosquitoes, throughout the Kingdom's 24 provinces, he said.

Education is another significant aspect of prevention efforts, the group says. The NADP has been conducting dengue-education sessions throughout Cambodia since 2002, aiming to inform residents about the precautions necessary to contain the spread of the illness, according to Chea Muntha, head of the dengue education programme at the NADP.

He said that as residents learn more about the importance of precautionary measures such as mosquito nets and household sanitation, mortality rates will continue to decline.

 

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Flooding hits homes, raises fears of dengue
Tuesday, 08 September 2009 15:02 Khouth Sophakchakrya

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FLASH flooding caused by heavy rains has damaged more than 20 homes in Kampot province and sparked concerns about a spike in dengue fever in the capital, officials said Monday.

Ros Se, director of Kampot's provincial information department, said the province had been hit by five days of rain. Mao Hak, director of the national Department of Hydrology and River Works, said flooding had also occurred in Kratie, Stung Treng and Kampong Cham provinces.

Ngan Chantha, head of the National Anti-Dengue Programme, said the flooding made anti-dengue precautions more important, adding that 24 children had died of the disease this year. [/B]

 

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Cambodia's dengue fever death toll sharply falls this year
www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-31 11:34:33

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The number of reported cases of dengue fever rose in 2009, but fatalities significantly fell from 2008 due to improved public awareness, local media reported on Thursday, citing health officials.

Ngan Chantha, director of dengue control at the Health Ministry, was quoted by the Cambodia Daily as saying that there were 11,625 cases of dengue fever and 36 deaths from the disease this year, compared to 9,245 cases and 65 deaths last year.

"We intervened by disseminating information through the media, spraying mosquito insecticide and training doctors and nurses to help dengue victims properly."

"People understand the disease and how dangerous it is, but they still don't change their behavior," he said, referring to the need to keep homes free of places where mosquitoes can breed.

Most of this year's dengue infections occurred in high-density areas in provinces including Kompong Cham, Kandal, Siem Reap and Kampot, as well as the capital Phnom Penh, Chantha added.

Doung Socheat, director of the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, agreed with Ngan Chantha that this year's decrease in fatalities was due to improved awareness and public health education on how to treat the disease.

Public health authorities will concentrate on decreasing further the number of both dengue infections and fatalities in the coming year, Socheat said.

 

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Cambodia records more cases of malaria and dengue fever in 2009
www.chinaview.cn 2010-01-05 11:27:10

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has seen a rise in reported cases of dengue fever and malaria in 2009, local media reported on Tuesday, citing health officials here.

Ngan Chantha, director of dengue control at the Ministry of Health, was quoted by the Cambodia Daily as saying that there were11,652 cases and 37 deaths reported in 2009 compared with 9,456 reported cases and 65 deaths in 2008.

While infections increased 30 percent, deaths were down by half, he said.

When asked if the number is expected to increase in 2010, Chantha said it would depend on how well individuals protect themselves and their families from the mosquito-born virus.

Figures for malaria cases in 2009 are still being tallied, said Ministry of Health and World Health Organization officials, but are already higher than in 2008, when there were 58,887 cases and 209 deaths.

In 2009, 60,157 recorded malaria cases led to 213 deaths from January through September.

"We don't have the full numbers, we're still collecting the totals from the provinces, but yes, in 2009 there were more cases than in 2008," said Duong Socheat, director of the National Center for Parisitology, Entomology and Malaria Control. He blamed more migrant movement and more mobility for more cases of malaria.