Citizens advised to apply drastic measure against dengue fever
Citizens advised to apply drastic preventive measure against dengue fever
The Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on August 1 warned citizens to apply drastic measures to prevent dengue fever spreading, after a person reportedly died of the disease in Ho Chi Minh recently.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Health Ministry’s Department of PreventiveMedicine on August 1 warned citizens to apply drastic measures to preventdengue fever spreading, after a person reportedly died of the disease in Ho ChiMinh recently.
The department stressed that the most effective way to fight thedisease, for which there is no specific medicine or vaccine, is to killmosquitoes and larvae and avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.
It advised people to clean their homes, properly dispose of waste andstow water receptacles away from where mosquitoes can breed.
Citizens should sleep in mosquito nets, wear long-sleeves and coordinatewith local authorities in spraying chemicals to kill mosquitoes.
Those who show symptoms of dengue fever, including a sudden and highfever, forehead and eye pains, rashes, bleeding, feeling cold or vomiting,should seek medical support at health care facilities.
Dengue fever is an acute viral disease caused by the dengue virus, whichis spread by two kinds of mosquitoes – Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus.
The disease is common in tropical countries. In Vietnam, peak season ofthe disease lasts from July to October. As the virus is divided into four types– D1, D2, D3 and D4, a person can be infected many times.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), every year, about 96million people are infected by dengue fever, with 500,000 serious cases, andabout 12,500 deaths.
Vietnam experienceda boom of dengue fever in 2017 when 181,054 got the disease and 30 deaths werereported nationwide, mostly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.-VNA
Although the number of dengue fever cases in Vietnam in the first months of this year posted a year-on-year decrease of 41.4 percent, there remain numerous latent risks of the disease to break out, according to the Department of Preventive Medicine.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has sent a warning to provincial and city-level health departments, hospitals and health centres about the need to strengthen the monitoring of weather forecasts from the National Meteorological and Hydrological Forecast Centre and the implementation of medical examinations for people.
Ho Chi Minh City reported a year-on-year decrease of 36 percent in the number of dengue fever cases in the first seven months of 2018, however recently recording its first death caused by the disease this year.
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Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) 
