Nearly 2,000 dengue fever cases reported in southern Vietnam
Some 2,000 people in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta were infected with dengue fever in January- early February period, of whom one died, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Monday.
Most of the sufferers are from the provinces of Hau Giang, An Giang and Dong Thap, where weather conditions and local people's habit of storing water in containers at their houses favored the development of mosquitoes -- the disease's transmitter.
To minimize the number of new infections, local health workers are encouraging residents to kill mosquitoes and their larvae more actively.
Vietnam reported 49,400 cases of dengue fever infections, including 51 fatalities last year, down 32.7 percent and 49.5 percent from the previous year, respectively, according to the country's General Statistics Office.
Xinhua - February 13, 2006.
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