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Health minister warns of dengue fever, influenza during rainy season
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Aug 21 -- The public should take precautions regarding mosquito-borne dengue fever and influenza during the ongoing rainy season in Thailand as people in Thailand's neighbouring countries are now suffering from the diseases, warned Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit on Saturday.
Mr Jurin told participants attending a health workshop at a university in this northeastern province that he had ordered public health doctors in every province to closely monitor on the widespread of dengue fever since the beginning of this year as the number of patients had risen sharply.
The number of dengue fever patients countrywide rose more than 80 per cent during the first eight months of 2010 compared to last year, he said. The public and concerned health officials have been instructed to destroy stripped mosquitoes and their breeding grounds.
People are also urged to rub mosquito repellent and those who have received mosquito bites and inflicted with dengue fever should visit a doctor immediately, Mr Jurin said, adding that the disease is spreading in neighbouring countries.
A newa report from the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi quoted UN World Health Organization epidemiologist Hannah Lewis as saying Friday that dengue fever had already killed 36 people in Laos this year, the worst epidemic in at least five years.
She said there appeared to be no particular cause for the increase, and that dengue epidemics were cyclical.
“Many other countries in the region also have this same pattern,” she added. (MCOT online news)
Mr Jurin told participants attending a health workshop at a university in this northeastern province that he had ordered public health doctors in every province to closely monitor on the widespread of dengue fever since the beginning of this year as the number of patients had risen sharply.
The number of dengue fever patients countrywide rose more than 80 per cent during the first eight months of 2010 compared to last year, he said. The public and concerned health officials have been instructed to destroy stripped mosquitoes and their breeding grounds.
People are also urged to rub mosquito repellent and those who have received mosquito bites and inflicted with dengue fever should visit a doctor immediately, Mr Jurin said, adding that the disease is spreading in neighbouring countries.
A newa report from the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi quoted UN World Health Organization epidemiologist Hannah Lewis as saying Friday that dengue fever had already killed 36 people in Laos this year, the worst epidemic in at least five years.
She said there appeared to be no particular cause for the increase, and that dengue epidemics were cyclical.
“Many other countries in the region also have this same pattern,” she added. (MCOT online news)
