Vietnam reports 28 dengue fever fatalities
Twenty-eight people in the south of Vietnam have died of dengue fever so far this year, according to local newspaper Saigon Liberation on Tuesday.
In the southern Mekong Delta alone, 20,000 people have been infected with the disease, of whom 26 died. Most of the sufferers were from flood-hit delta provinces of An Giang, Tien Giang and Dong Thap.
To minimize the number of new infections, local health workers are encouraging residents to kill mosquitoes and their larvae more actively. More chemicals used to kill the insect are given to the residents.
Vietnam reported 73,300 cases of dengue fever infections nationwide, including 101 fatalities, last year, up 108 percent and 74 percent against the year earlier, respectively. Most of the cases were detected in the southern region, whose climate is suitable for development of mosquitoes - the disease's transmitter.
Xinhuanet - October 04, 2005.
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