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Indonesia - Dengue fever needs serious anticipation

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Dengue fever needs serious anticipation
Mon, December 12 2011 14:11 |

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Dengue fever, an acute infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, is feared to continue to prevail during the rainy season until January to February 2012.
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In Riau province, 63 people since January 2011 were reported to have died of dengue fever.

"Of 2,698 dengue cases from January to December 2011, 63 people have died of the disease," Riau provincial health service spokesman Andra Syafril said in Pekanbaru over the weekend.

Andra said since dengue case was declared as and extraordinary event in November 11, 2011, it continued to increase in the districts of Kampar, Pelalawan, Indragiri Hilir, Rokan Hilir, Rokan Hulu, Kuantan Sengingi, Siak.

Meanwhile, Bengkulu district health office chief Nixon Syahbudin said on Sunday that since January to November 2011 a total of 317 people in the province had been infected by dengue fever with 7 fatalities.
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Meanwhile, Jambi city is also dengue fever endemic with the cases continued to increase by 800 with 27 deaths in the past two months.
Jambi city administration spokesman Subhi said on Thursday that the dengue outbreak has been declared as an extraordinary incident in the city.

"Two weeks ago there were 700 cases but now it has increased to 800," Subhi said, adding that in spite of a hundred increase in one week, there was no additional fatality.

Jambi provincial health office spokesperson Irawati Sukandar said in Jambi in November that two sub-districts namely Jambi Selatan and Kotabaru in the province were dengue fever endemic.

"We find out that the two sub-districts are dengue fever endemic after we carry out a special research by involving involving the health research agency of Palembang, South Sumatra," Irawati said.
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Irawati said that as of October 2011, more than 500 people in the two sub-districts were tested dengue fever positive.
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According to a Health Ministry report, more than 157,000 people across Indonesia were infected by dengue fever with more than 1,400, mostly children, having died of the disease in 2010.
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Data from Yogyakarta city health office indicated that there were 434 cases of dengue fever with two fatalities as of September 2011.
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