The dengue fever outbreak has reached its peak in Ho Chi Minh City, with the number of patients contracting the mosquito-born disease rising to 3,000 in the first 9 months of this year, resulting in five deaths.
The HCM City Preventive Medicine Department reported that dengue fever broke out during the rainy season lasting from August to the end of October. In October alone, more than 1,000 people were hospitalised with syndrome of the tropical disease, mostly in Hoc Mon, Thu Duc, Binh Chanh and Tan Binh districts.
The Department’s statistics also showed a sudden increase in the number of hand-foot-mouth patients over the past two months with as many as 300 people hospitalised a week. The number of patients in the first 9 months of this year was up around 20% from a year earlier.
However, measles cases saw a decline in recent months, with about 15 patients being hospitalized weekly.
Dr. Nguyen Tri Dung, Director of the HCM City Preventive Medicine Department, said tougher measures will be taken to keep the two infectious diseases – dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth – under control.
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