Dengue fever cases in Bangkok up by almost 20% so far in 2016

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Dengue fever cases in Bangkok up by almost 20% so far in 2016
STAFF WRITER


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BANGKOK: -- From January to May 2016, Bangkok recorded a total of 3,630 cases of dengue fever – a 19.5 percent increase on the same period in 2015.

These figures were reported by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Communicable Disease Control Division.

Thailand wide, the figure for January to May was 18,044 cases.

According to Outbreak News Today, the 5 provinces most affected by dengue are Bangkok, Rayong, Mae Hong Son, Phuket and Trat.

Children aged between 10 and 14 years of age are the demographic most affected.

Thankfully, no deaths have been recorded from dengue fever in Bangkok this year, although 15 have been tallied across the wider Thailand area.

Dengue fever comes about by one of five types of the dengue virus, which is spread by the Aedes mosquito. Symptoms usually develop between 3 days and two weeks after the initial infection.

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[Kabula]

I live in Bangkok and I have not even seen a mosquito for months

I think the heat and lack of rain caused them to die or leave!

Even when walking by stagnant water canals.

[axtlee]

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[BKKdreaming]

more BS with numbers ......

 

if there were 10 cases last year , then 12 gets you to the 20% increase

 

what this really says was there were many last year and no one said anything because it was not in the World press and why scare away tourists over something silly like Zika

Zika has been known since the late 1940s in Africa.......