Dengue Fever "Red Alert" Quảng Nam (including Hội An)

"Red alert" about dengue fever

Quảng Nam News

04/11/2022 (link)

(Google Translation)

Continuing to be the locality with the highest number of cases in the Central region, Quang Nam is in the midst of an outbreak of dengue fever at the "red alert" level.

Mr. Tran Van Kiem - Director of Quang Nam Center for Disease Control (CDC) informed that a week ago, Nha Trang Pasteur Institute identified mosquitoes, organized monitoring of outbreaks in Quang Nam and the results showed that Currently, the virus causing dengue fever (DHF) in Quang Nam has all 4 strains Den1, Den2, Den3 and Den4.

“Only Quang Nam now has four such types, in which the number of cases of Den3 type - a type that easily causes severe illness and death - has been recorded a lot. Currently, we determine that Quang Nam is in the alarming weeks of the peak of the epidemic, with an average of nearly 900 cases per week now. Alarming the level of spread in the community, "- Mr. Kiem said.

According to the Ministry of Health, the number of dengue cases in the central region has increased since June 2022. Currently, the epidemic situation tends to increase and surpass the epidemic curve.

The Ministry of Health said that a number of provinces and cities had a sharp increase in the number of cases, respectively Quang Nam, Binh Thuan, Da Nang, Phu Yen, Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai and Khanh Hoa.