The Southwest region is dealing with an increasing dengue fever epidemic in the middle of the dry season

The southwestern provinces are in the dry season, but they have to deal with the increasing number of dengue cases.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Can Tho, up to now, the province has recorded over 590 cases of dengue fever, an increase over the same period (just over 90 cases), there is one case of dengue fever in the province. Co Do district. The number of cases is concentrated in districts: Ninh Kieu, Thot Not, Cai Rang, Co Do...

In Dong Thap and Tien Giang, the number of dengue cases since the beginning of the year has increased by 200-400% over the same period in 2022.

Accordingly, CDC Tien Giang said that since the beginning of the year, the province has recorded 713 cases of dengue fever; All recorded outbreaks were epidemiologically verified, vectors monitored and insecticide sprayed at households within a radius of 200m.

In Dong Thap province, since the beginning of the year, there have been 333 dengue fever outbreaks in all districts, with 653 cases, an increase of 2.8 times over the same period. The localities with the highest number of cases are Cao Lanh, Thanh Binh and Thap Muoi districts. An Giang province also recorded a high number of dengue fever cases over the same period, with a total of over 860 cases.

According to the CDC leaders in the southwestern provinces, the reason for the high number of dengue cases in the current dry season is due to previous unseasonal rains, increasing the vector of disease transmission. Mosquitoes have a breeding ground.

Many households store water for agricultural cultivation and daily life. When it rains, there are water holes, storage tools around the house ... a place for mosquitoes to easily lay eggs and breed spawning larvae...

In order to actively prevent and prevent dengue fever outbreak and spread in the first few months of the upcoming rainy season, the western localities are launching a community-based campaign to kill the larvae of dengue fever prevention and control. copper.

In Can Tho City, the campaign is divided into two phases: phase 1 from March 16 to 18, and phase 2 from March 30 to April 1.

CDC Can Tho also strengthens coordination with localities to check and monitor the mosquito larvae index in key areas of dengue fever, support localities to spray insecticides on a large scale, and promptly handle outbreaks. .

In places where the number of dengue cases is increasing, in addition to organizing spraying to suppress epidemics, kill larvae... CDCs of provinces recommend people to clean, clean living places, do not store water or take measures cover, cover the water storage place; Drop fish in water containers to kill larvae...

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