Health There are 132 cases of dengue fever in Marib

Saqr News The Ministry of Public Health and Population of Marib governorate, east of Yemen, recorded Thursday 132 cases of "dengue" in various parts of the province, in recent years. weeks.

In a statement arrived in Anatolia a copy, the government office issued a distress call for official and governmental agencies and international and local organizations to intervene urgently to deal with the disease.

The statement warns of the risk of health development in the province, including "the rapid spread of many diseases and epidemics such as measles, cholera and diphtheria, and finally the widespread spread of dengue fever".

The statement did not provide statistics on the number of people with diseases and epidemics other than "dengue".

The office said it "suffers from a lack of resources due to the current political situation and the country's exceptional situation, especially with the apparent weakness of the interventions international organizations in the province ".

and called for a rapid response to reduce the spread of epidemic diseases, especially "dengue" and "measles".

He also called for meeting the basic needs of education, prevention and vector control and the provision of basic treatments to protect civilians from deadly epidemics.

The dengue virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of mosquitoes, and the virus usually acquires the virus when it absorbs the blood of an infected person.

Symptoms of the disease include fever, severe headache, joint pain, muscle and bone pain, severe pain behind the eyes, and bleeding from the nose.

The disease killed 42 Yemenis in the first six months of 2016, according to the World Health Organization.

Data from the World Organization recorded 17,796 suspected cases of epidemics in Yemeni cities during the same period which experienced a major outbreak of the epidemic following the deterioration of the health situation in the country.

For more than three years, Yemen witnessed a violent war between government forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, supported by Saudi-led Saudi-led forces and al-Houthi militants.

The war left disastrous humanitarian and health conditions, resulting in epidemics and the closure of many health facilities in the country, one of the world's poorest countries .