Dong Nai province has recorded more than 3,000 dengue fever cases since early 2018. (Photo: VNA)Dong Nai (VNA) – The has reported
the second death from , Director of the provincial Preventive
Medicine Centre Bach Thai Binh said on September 8.
Binh confirmed the death of a woman who resided in Tam Hiep ward, Bien Hoa
city.
The joined hands with Tam Hiep ward’s health centre
to spray chemicals around her house to prevent dengue fever while enhancing
communication to raise public awareness of the disease.
Since the outset of the year, Bien Hoa city has been among leading localities
in Dong Nai province in the number of dengue fever cases with some 1,000 cases.
Statistics from the Preventive Medicine Centre showed that the province has
recorded more than 3,000 dengue fever cases since early 2018, decreasing 20
percent from the same time last year. Most of the patients came from Dinh Quan,
Trang Bom and Nhon Trach districts.
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease. Dengue virus is transmitted by female
mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and to a lesser extent,
Ae.albopictus. Dengue is widespread throughout the tropics, with local
variations in risk influenced by rainfall, temperature and unplanned rapid
urbanisation.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
