Dengue Count On The Rise

Here’s about dengue.

Dengue cases are on the rise in Bangalore.

Hospitals in the city are reporting fresh cases everyday. The Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital witnesses six to eight fresh cases of dengue every day.

As many as 91 patients at the hospital have tested positive for the fever from January till June 26.

KC General Hospital at Malleswaram too treats six to eight patients suffering from dengue everyday.

Dr Jagadish Chinnappa, pediatrician at Manipal Hospital, said 15 children were admitted to the hospital and were undergoing treatment for dengue on  Tuesday.

Dr H Parmesh, director (medical), Lakeside Hospital, said 10 confirmed cases are reported on an average at the hospital everyday.

Dr Hira Raikar, joint director of health and family welfare department (Malaria and filaria) said the palike should take steps because dengue cases were on the rise this year. “We asked the BBMP chief health officer last Thursday to submit a detailed project report of actions and measures taken by the palike,” he said.

Spread in Phuket

Above info about dengue fever spread in Phuket.

The number of dengue fever cases in Phuket is soaring, according to the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO).
PPHO Director Narinrach Pichyakamin said figures released by the PPHO at a meeting of public health volunteers on June 17 showed 213 cases of dengue fever in Phuket from January 1 to June 12 this year.
The initial target for 2010 was to keep the figure below 170 cases for the entire year, Dr Narinrach said.
According to Ministry of Public Health statistics, Phuket has the highest incidence rate [63.4 cases per 100,000 residents] of dengue of any of the Andaman Coast provinces and currently ranks 13^th among Thailand’s 76 provinces.
The incidence rate for 2009 was a much lower, at 38.5 cases per 100,000 residents. There were a total of 126 cases out of a total registered population of 327,006, the official figure used for 2009.
The PPHO currently lists the registered population of Phuket at 335,913, a figure which does not include the huge number of migrant workers from other provinces.
Given that the number of Thais living here is probably about twice the official population, the actual incidence rate is likely about half of the one reported.
This is because all cases among Thais are included in the calculation, sources at the PPHO said during previous outbreaks.
Dr Narinrach said education is key in preventing the spread of the mosquito-borne dengue fever.
“We have started campaigns to teach locals how to eliminate breeding grounds of mosquitoes,” he told the Gazette.
“In order to prevent the spread of the disease, everyone must look after their residences and make sure there aren’t places where mosquitoes can breed, such as open water containers. If everyone were aware of things like this and took action, the situation would improve,” he said.
PPHO volunteers always find more mosquito breeding sites at the beginning of the monsoon season, he said.
Dr Narinrach pointed out that it is urgent to implement a project of eradicating breeding grounds in homes and communities, as June and August usually see the highest numbers of dengue fever cases.
The highest incidence rate recorded in Thailand so far this year is in Chanthaburi Province, which stands at 134.77 cases per 100,000 people.
In Southern Thailand, Satun Province tops the list with a rate of 121.12 cases per 100,000 people.

Two Horses Catch Mosquito

Above some info about it.

Days after St. Johns County warning of possible mosquito-borne illnesses to animals and humans, Clay County health officials reported that two horses have tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis.

Encephalitis, along with West Nile virus and dengue fever, are spread by mosquitoes -- which are prevalent across the area due to hot weather and standing water left by summer rain storms, which are where the insects are hatched.

Clay County Mosquito Control and the Clay County Health Department continue surveillance and prevention efforts. Residents and visitors are encouraged to take basic precautions to help limit exposure to mosquitoes.

Jacksonville Mosquito Control officials told Channel 4 earlier in the week that the peak season for mosquitoes is just arriving.

"We're trying to stay ahead of the game and to prevent an outbreak or the spread of disease," Clark said.

Dengue Outbreak Honduras Announces Emergency

Here some info about it.

Honduras has a dengue distribution, emergency power for the opinions so far affected 10 people at most 11 000 claimed the lives of people in the country.
Health is monitored by a cabinet secretary in the formation of an inter-institutional commission has accepted the proposal. Commission plan is carried out to control the epidemic.
A permanent state commission Commission and National Association of Risk Management Systems including Aedes aegypti with a couple of other organizations, making virus mosquito breeding grounds that are working to eliminate.
numbers by national health authorities and classic and hemorrhagic dengue type per 10,780 cases, more free country approximately 461 such cases.

Dengue Fever Return

Here’s info about dengue fever.

When the rains come, unless the fee we received from the pleu but it will cause many diseases such as foot Hong Kong, cold and dengue fever is a deadly disease and come again and again every year.
Dengue fever can occur throughout the year, but dispersed in the rainy season during May September. When the mosquito bites and dengue virus in the blood, bacteria will grow in the membrane of the stomach and spread to glands lenfatik the mosquito is ready to spread out to people who have mordu.
Virus causes dengue fever. Most virtual germs cause dengue, which has four types and the common house mosquito is a carrier of disease germs. the virus can live in the mosquito life. period for mosquitoes feed during the day, but at this researchers found steps mosquito behavior is changing food until 23:00.

We found all age of people can have a Dengue fever but most found in children age between 5-10 years. At the first period after bitten by mosquitoes, the patients will have a high fever 3-7 days and the symptoms is serious or not depend on each patient. Most patients will have high temperature, red face, stomachache, boring food, pain throughout body. Some patients have blood-spot on their skin. Most have no cold. The dangerous thing of Dengue fever is the patient or closed person will not know that they have a Dengue fever until they are in crisis and have bleeding in some part of body especially nosebleed, blood-spot on the skin, vomit, thirsty all the time. Please take the patient to see doctor immediately so doctor can cure in time.

Now Bangkok Hospital Pattaya can check Dengue germ by PCR method and the new updated method by Dengue NS1 Antigen. Both methods will present the result quickly and correctly within 24 hours so it’s a one way that can help to reduce risk of the death from Dengue fever.

PCR

- Know the result within 24 hrs.                        

- Expensive                                                                   

- Know the kind of Dengue germ                 

Dengue NS1 Antigen

-  Know the result within 24 hrs.

-  Cheaper

-  Unknown the kind of Dengue Germ (each kind has violenceAnd treatment differently)

Most of the time, we heard people died cause of dengue fever. So preventive and protective people you care by eradicate and frustrate culture area of the mosquitoes larvae by closing the cover of water-ware, check water in vase and change water every week to prevent mosquitoes lay its egg because it like to culture in clean-no movement water. And the patient should take care yourself and don’t let mosquitoes bite within the first 5 days of having this disease because virus is still in the blood and can spread to another person.

Dengue Cases Rise in Kidapawan City

Here’s about dengue cases in Kidapawan.

KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato—Health authorities here are alarmed by the continuing increase in the number of dengue cases despite an intensified campaign against the mosquito-borne ailment.
Gloria Mondejar, city health sanitary inspector, said based on their records, 192 dengue cases were reported during the first five months of the year. This was more than double the 87 cases recorded during the same period last year, she added.
Mondejar said what was alarming was that the increase occurred even if the city health office had intensified its anti-dengue campaign.
“This is alarming, that is why the city health office is now intensifying more its campaign against dengue in all 40 villages of the city,” she said.
Among the areas where a large number of dengue cases were reported this year were the villages of Lanao, Poblacion, Sudapin, Magsaysay and Singao.
Mondejar said they were replicating the anti-dengue campaign in Barangay Patadon, a Muslim community, where not a single case of dengue has been reported since the start of the year.
“City health officials lauded the village officials of Patadon for working hard in the campaign against dengue in their area,” Mondejar said.
She said among the things the city health found was that residents of Patadon were very active in cleaning their surroundings.
Mondejar said they were now using the Patadon example in encouraging residents of other places to trim or cut the branches of trees near their homes and rid their neighborhoods of possible mosquito breeding areas.
In Cotabato City, the Maguindanao provincial health office also said dengue cases rose during the first five months of the year compared to the same period last year.
Dr. Tahir Sulaik, Maguindanao provincial health officer, said his office has recorded 90 cases of dengue in at least six towns in Maguindanao.
Of the 90 patients, one died, he said.
Sulaik identified the town of Datu Odin Sinsuat, where many residents displaced by the 2008 violence between the military and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front continue to live, as having the highest number of dengue cases.
From January to May, at least 29 cases were recorded in Datu Odin Sinsuat.
Sulaik urged residents to develop the habit of burning dried grass and leaves in the afternoon to ward off mosquitoes.
Empty bottles and containers inside homes should also be disposed of lest mosquitoes breed in them.

Two dengue cases reported in Hong Kong

Here’s info about dengue cases.

The Centre for Health Protection is investigating two confirmed Dengue fever cases involving a 37-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man. 

The woman developed a fever and rash since June 2 and was admitted to Yan Chai Hospital on June 7. She recovered and was discharged the following day.  

The man came down with a fever and headache June 7 and developed rash on June 10. He was admitted to United Christian Hospital two days later. He recovered and was discharged June 14.  

Both patients were members of two diving groups who visited Sabah and Sipadan, Malaysia, May 23 to 29. Four other group members were symptomatic but have already recovered.

Take preventive measures against dengue fever

Above some info about dengue.

A Myanmar official daily Monday called on the country's people to continue to take preventive measures against dengue fever as it has entered the rainy season which is sensitive to the occurrence of the disease.

"Dengue fever, malaria, diarrhea, cough and pneumonia may rare their ugly heads again," the New Light of Myanmar warned in its editorial, stressing the need to take preventive measures against the seasonal diseases. 

Pointing out that mosquito, in particular, is the most prolific in the rainy season, the editorial emphasized the need also to pay serious attention to the prevention and control of dengue fever so that people can stay away from the disease caused by mosquito. 

Quoting the health department, the editorial said mostly under- 15 children, especially between three and nine years of age suffer dengue fever and now such cases are found even among some adult people, further warning that dengue fever cases can occur regardless of age and season. 

According to the Yangon City Development Committee, the city saw less dengue fever occurrence in the first quarter of 2010 correspondingly, thanks to the authorities' tight preventive measure against the disease.

I confess to some cynicism about this report. Burma (renamed Myanmar by its military rulers) is effectively a satellite of China. No one else has a kind word to say about the despots who rule it, though India and Thailand help to keep the generals in power with their trade deals.

More than 50% drop in dengue cases

Here’s about dengue cases.

Dengue fever cases this year have more than halved compared to the first six months of 2009, local media reported on Wednesday, citing officials of Health Ministry.

However, health officials warn that more dengue infections are likely during the forthcoming rainy season, which is arriving late.

Seven people died in the first five and a half months of this year, the same toll as last year, but reported infections have decreased in the same period from 2,431 to 1,111, the ministry's dengue control program director Ngan Chantha was quoted by the Cambodia Daily as saying.

"The number has decreased, but we are calling on people to remain careful with the breeding of mosquitoes during the rainy season," Chantha said.

"From the 21st to 22nd week, the jump in cases is quite high," Chantha said, noting there were 242 cases in week 22. "We should be vigilant because July is a highly vulnerable month."

The decrease in dengue fever cases is due to the delayed rainy season, increased public awareness and health care system improvements, said Hai Ra, head of dengue control at Kompong Cham provincial health department.

In the first 21 weeks of this year there were 122 reported cases of dengue with two deaths in Kompong Cham, down from 315 cases with three deaths during the same period last year, Hai Ra was quoted as saying.

Kompong Cham is the second-most affected province after Phnom Penh, followed by kandal and Siem Reap.

What is Dengue Fever

Let’s talk about dengue fever.

“Dengue is the most common vector-borne viral disease in the world, causing an estimated 50–100 million infections and 25,000 deaths each year (1). During 1946–1980, no cases of dengue acquired in the continental United States were reported. Since 1980, a few locally acquired U.S. cases have been confirmed along the Texas-Mexico border, temporally associated with large outbreaks in neighboring Mexican cities (2–4). On September 1, 2009, a New York physician notified the Monroe County (Florida) Health Department (MCHD) and the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) of a suspected dengue case in a New York state resident whose only recent travel was to Key West, Florida. CDC confirmed the diagnosis, and a press release was issued to notify the public and Key West physicians of the potential risk for locally acquired dengue infections. In the next 2 weeks, two dengue infections in Key West residents without recent travel were reported and confirmed. Subsequently, enhanced and active surveillance identified 24 more Key West cases during 2009. On April 13, 2010, another Key West dengue case was reported to FDOH, bringing the total to 28.”

Symptoms of dengue include:

• fever
• severe headache
• pain behind the eyes
• joint and muscle pain
• rash
• nausea/vomiting
• hemorrhagic (bleeding) manifestations

Usually dengue fever causes a mild illness, but it can be severe and lead to dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), which can be fatal if not treated. People who have had dengue fever before are more at risk of getting DHF.

Dengue claims the student life

Above about dengue.

“The untimely death of my son was due to the lack of proper medical care at the hospital” charged a father of three children S. P. Wimalasena of Kawdana, Dehiwala.

He was making a statement regarding the death of 17-year-old S. P. Isuru Prabath, a year 12 student of Lalith Athulathmudali College, Mount Lavinia, suspected of Dengue.

Commenting further Wimalasena said that on May 31 his son Isuru Prabath developed vomiting, high fever and was removed to a private medical institute and later transferred to the national hospital Colombo on their advice.

Despite daily blood tests, no improvement was visible and on June 3, morning my son complained of breathing difficulty and shouted in pain. The Ward doctor in charge tried in vain to avail the services of a qualified doctor. In the afternoon my son was transferred to the ICU where he died, no post mortem was even held, the father complained.

K. B. Fernando (70) grandmother of Isuru Prabath in her evidence said the deceased was the only grand-son who was studying for the GCE Adv. Level before the untimely death.

US strikes by dengue fever

Here about dengue fever in US

Dengue fever has returned to the U.S. in the Florida Keys, after a 65.

The mosquito-borne virus has been identified in 28 people from Key West by the US Centers for Disease Control. The CDC announced the findings last week in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

"We don't know for sure that this hasn't happened before without being noticed," says Christopher Gregory of the CDC's dengue branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico. "It could be the tip of the iceberg."

Most cases resolve after flu-like symptoms, says Gregory. He says the best precaution is to empty standing water from potential mosquito breeding grounds, such as birdbaths.

Gregory says the blame for this dramatic rise could lie with increased travel between the US and South and Central America and the Caribbean - areas which have seen nearly 5 million cases of dengue fever from 2000 to 2007. Infected mosquitoes have also been moving northwards, thanks to global warming.

Dan Epstein of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington DC is worried that these two factors could lead to outbreaks of dengue haemorrhagic fever, the most severe and lethal form of the disease, which is present in South America.

Gregory is more concerned about the potential spread of chikungunya, an incurable mosquito-borne virus, that causes crippling arthritis-like symptoms. It's only a matter of time before it reaches the US, he says.