As of early June 2024, the country recorded 22,000 cases of dengue fever, including 3 deaths.
Statistics from the Hanoi Department of Health show that the cumulative number of infections since the beginning of the year has nearly doubled compared to the same period last year (from 408 cases in 2023 to 783 cases in 2024). In Ho Chi Minh City, in the first week of June 2024 alone, 130 infections were recorded, increasing the cumulative number of infections from the beginning of the year to June 9 to a total of 3,677 cases.
In recent times, the Capital Health Department has strengthened monitoring of dengue fever prevention and control. During the investigation, the monitoring indexes of larvae, Aedes mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever, and the BI (Breteau index) play an important role in determining the situation.
Accordingly, if the BI index is recorded at 20 or more (the regulation in the Northern region), the monitoring facility is at high risk of an outbreak. With this database, the monitoring results at the 2024 outbreak in Dan Phuong district and the old outbreaks in 2023 in the past week showed that the insect index in some places exceeded the risk threshold by 2-5 times.
Mr. Vu Cao Cuong, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Health, said that the dengue fever epidemic this year will have complicated developments. The reason is due to climate conditions, along with many places where people have the habit of littering, storing rainwater and domestic water, creating an environment for disease-carrying mosquitoes to grow and develop.
Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Quang Thai, Deputy Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said: Many people still think that dengue fever only occurs during the rainy season. However, the source of the disease is currently latent and stable. It only needs enough opportunity and conditions to break out. Uncertain weather factors, urbanization, and human migration have caused dengue fever to occur almost year-round. Therefore, we must be vigilant and prevent the disease all year round, both in the dry season and the cold winter.
To prevent the disease, the effective preventive measure is still to actively clean the environment, completely remove water containers, a favorable environment for mosquitoes to lay eggs.
If a patient with dengue fever has warning signs such as: high fever, abdominal pain in the liver area, vomiting or bleeding gums, irregular menstruation or cold hands and feet, low blood pressure... they need to go to a medical facility immediately for examination and timely treatment. Absolutely do not self-treat at home, subjectivity leads to the risk of serious illness and death.
There is currently no specific treatment for dengue fever, mainly treating symptoms and monitoring warning signs. Patients need to be hospitalized when they have one of the following signs: mucosal bleeding, bleeding from the teeth, nose, or digestive tract; abdominal pain in the liver area; severe vomiting; rapid decrease in platelets and concentrated blood; and little urine.
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