Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Woman died of dengue fever
Doctor thought it was just a mosquito bite, and the woman died. Now, the Health Institute is monitoring the fatal virus.
Two weeks after the Thailand-holiday dead the 52-year-old woman of dengue fever, a serious virus illness who become infected through mosquito in tropical regions.
The death was investigated by the Health, West College after a doctor does not hit the alarm, but treated the symptoms as flu. Investigation report from Health said that the woman did not receive academic, proper medical attention, and they believed the treatment was objectionable.
- Notification of material
But Dengue Fever is not on the list of infectious diseases that must be notified to the authorities. National folkehelseinstitutt is now asking that this be changed.
In a letter to Health and Care Department asks that the department also dengue fever is mandatory notification.
- It is a serious disease, and it is also why we will monitor the disease, "said assistant manager Hans Blystad at the National folkehelseinstitutt to the Manager.
Blystad points out in the letter that a monitoring of the disease will be useful in terms of prevention advice to Norwegians who travel to areas where the virus spread.
- The disease spread throughout the world, and more and more Norwegian tourists staying in these areas, "he said.
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http://www.nettavisen.no/innenriks/article2401601.ece
Doctor thought it was just a mosquito bite, and the woman died. Now, the Health Institute is monitoring the fatal virus.
Two weeks after the Thailand-holiday dead the 52-year-old woman of dengue fever, a serious virus illness who become infected through mosquito in tropical regions.
The death was investigated by the Health, West College after a doctor does not hit the alarm, but treated the symptoms as flu. Investigation report from Health said that the woman did not receive academic, proper medical attention, and they believed the treatment was objectionable.
- Notification of material
But Dengue Fever is not on the list of infectious diseases that must be notified to the authorities. National folkehelseinstitutt is now asking that this be changed.
In a letter to Health and Care Department asks that the department also dengue fever is mandatory notification.
- It is a serious disease, and it is also why we will monitor the disease, "said assistant manager Hans Blystad at the National folkehelseinstitutt to the Manager.
Blystad points out in the letter that a monitoring of the disease will be useful in terms of prevention advice to Norwegians who travel to areas where the virus spread.
- The disease spread throughout the world, and more and more Norwegian tourists staying in these areas, "he said.
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http://www.nettavisen.no/innenriks/article2401601.ece