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By Robert Herriman @ bactiman63
Dengue fever
The Taiwan Department of Disease Control reported three other confirmed cases of locally acquired dengue fever in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City. All were men aged 50 to 60 living in Dingjinli. All three do not have a travel history.
This brings the total to 15 cases of indigenous dengue this year, all from Kaohsiung City – including 14 cases in Sanmin District (13 cases in Dingjinli, 1 case in Dingxili) and 1 case in Qianzhen District.
Another 155 cases of imported dengue fever have been reported.
In response to these cases, the Department of Disease Control and the Government of Kaohsiung City continued to engage epidemic prevention staff to carry out epidemic investigations around case activities, to verify and report on outbreaks. Erase the sources of health and emergency prevention and control activities carried out by the local population and medical staff. institutions. In addition, the government of Kaohsiung City continued to implement "dengue badociated with large-scale raids" in Dingjinli and surrounding areas.
Japanese encephalitis
Health officials also report two other confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis. The cases were in Chiayi Oriental District and Zuoying District in Kaohsiung City.
The Department of Disease Control said the two new cases were a 50-year-old man from Chiayi City and a 50-year-old woman from Kaohsiung City. Both had no recent history of trips abroad. They developed fever symptoms on May 21 and 23, respectively. Both cases are currently treated in the intensive care unit.
Among the cases in Chiayi City, there are several hog barns, paddy fields and hen houses within 3 km of the people of the Oriental District and vegetable gardens of Zhongpu County in Chiayi County. As for the case of Kaohsiung City, there is no pigsty near the house, but there are paddy fields and otters. Ground and chicken coop. The health service has gone into the houses and surrounding activities to carry out environmental surveys, to eliminate the sources of hygiene and to suspend mosquito traps in hog barns or poultry houses in order to reduce control measures such as vector mosquito density and enhance advertising. and propaganda of the local population.
There are 4 confirmed cases this year, including 3 cases in Kaohsiung and 1 case in Chiayi.
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