Winning the war on dengue

[geovalin]

The number of people suffering from dengue fever in Cambodia has dropped by half in one year, but people still need to be on their guard, the Health Ministry warned yesterday. The ministry yesterday used National Dengue Campaign Day to announce that there were 1,133 reported dengue cases in the first 24 weeks of this year and just one fatality, compared with 2,447 dengue cases and five deaths in the same period last year.

 

Leang Rithea, national dengue control programme manager at the ministry’s National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, applauded the latest statistics. “It means that the number of cases decreased more than 50 percent and deaths dropped more than 80 percent,” Dr Rithea said.

 

He attributed the improvements to greater awareness of the disease in all parts of the community – schools, parents, teachers and government officials – but issued a timely warning. “We should not be satisfied with these results because generally dengue fever is transmitted more often during rainy season and that season is just starting,” he said. “Children and adults are still at risk of contracting the disease.”

 

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[212Roger]

The reason I left Chiang Mai was because I got Dengue Fever; not fun.

[perthperson]

2 minutes ago, 212Roger said:

The reason I left Chiang Mai was because I got Dengue Fever; not fun.

 

Dengue is endemic throughout the whole of Thailand and the majority of SE Asia.

Sorry to say this but if you are still in the region you have not eliminated/reduced the risk of contacting Dengue by leaving CM