Dengue fever is on the rise, with a total of 13,126 cases, including 12 fatalities, being reported so far this year. This is a 2.2 fold increase over the same period last year, according to Dr. Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the Disease Control Department.

 

Of this year’s cases, 3,776 were children aged from 5 to 14, followed by 3,072 in the 15 to 24 age group and 2,350 cases in the 25 to 34 age group. Most of the fatalities were people over 65 years old.

 

Dr. Thongchai said that the best preventive measure now is for everyone, including those who have already been bitten, to apply mosquito repellents, to protect them from being bitten by striped mosquitoes, which will bite the other people and spread the disease.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-19

 

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35 minutes ago, webfact said:

Of this year’s cases, 3,776 were children aged from 5 to 14, followed by 3,072 in the 15 to 24 age group and 2,350 cases in the 25 to 34 age group. Most of the fatalities were people over 65 years old.

 

...ah! the blessed who are between 35 and 64 years old

A new soi is shortly to be opened near me complete with the statutory mosquito-breeding chambers every 10 metres in the name of drainage.

2 in my family already got dengue in the past couple of months.. It is really not as bad as they say for children. But old people need to be careful. hospitalization and death is probable.