The Ministry of Health (MoH) will amend the guidelines on diagnosis and treatment for dengue patients in a bid to improve the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the mortality rate caused by the disease.
The dengue fever season is peaking, with a sharp rise in incidence of the mosquito-borne disease in Ho Chi Minh City, the Mekong Delta and the south-east, according to preventive medicine centres.
The first Zika cluster in Singapore this year has been detected, after three cases were confirmed in Serangoon Gardens, the National Environment Agency of Singapore (NEA) said on September 13.
The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) on August 30 announced a report on dengue fever outbreaks in the country, saying that the number of dengue cases since the beginning of 2019 is more than double of the figure recorded in the same period last year.
The number of dengue cases in the Philippines has surged to 188,000 with 807 deaths in the first eight months of this year, the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) reported on August 20.
Dengue fever killed 48 people and infected 10,757 others across Myanmar in the past seven months, said the Public Health Department under Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports on August 14.
The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) has declared the country’s outbreak of dengue to be a national epidemic in the wake of 146,062 cases recorded from January to July 20 this year.
s many as 105,000 cases of dengue fever have been recorded nationwide so far this year, including 10 deaths, and the number of the cases is likely to increase in localities across the country, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak recently recorded one death from dengue fever, the second fatality in the province since the start of the year, said Director of the provincial Centre for Preventive Medicine Pham Van Lao.
The capital city of Hanoi recorded additional 232 dengue fever cases from July 22-28, up 63 cases from the previous week, reported the municipal Health Department on July 29.
Research on a vaccine against dengue fever has been completed in Vietnam and the vaccine still needs ethical approval from the Ministry of Health before being popularized, according to the vaccine research group from the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City.
Hanoi’s Department of Health has sent a document to medical stations and drugstores in the capital city to ensure they have enough medicine to prevent and treat dengue fever.
Lao Minister of Health Bounkong Syhavong has stressed the need to mobilise more health workers to serve the treatment of dengue fever patients given the fact that Laos is facing the risk of dengue fever outbreaks.
The number of dengue fever cases in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has reduced, but serious ones increased although this has yet been the peak season of the disease, according to local health authority.
The health sectors in Thailand and the Philippines are working to deal with dengue fever outbreaks, which have been a pressing issue since the beginning of 2019.
The Philippines on July 15 declared a national dengue alert in several regions of the Philippines due to the rapidly increasing number of cases in these areas.
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