Dengue rife, malaria spreading in filthy streets of Yemen: charity

[Sally]

Not only this, but the people are on the verge of starvation.

Aug 12, 2015 2:55pm EDT
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Dengue rife, malaria spreading in filthy streets of Yemen: charity
BY MONICA MACSWAN

Children queue for water at a school in Sanaa, Yemen, sheltering them and their families after the conflict forced them to flee their areas from the Houthi-controlled northern province of Saada August 4, 2015.
REUTERS/KHALED ABDULLAH


LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rubbish piling up on the streets of Yemeni towns is helping the spread of dengue fever and malaria, a charity employing local people to clear up the filth said on Wednesday, as fighting, baking heat and a lack of food and water add to their hardships.

Rubbish lying in the streets has contaminated soil and water and attracted infectious pests, Mercy Corps said. Mosquitoes carrying dengue fever and malaria breed and lay eggs in puddles.

At least 8,000 people in the port city of Aden have contracted dengue fever since the present crisis began five months ago, cases of typhoid have been recorded and there are reports of malaria.

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No Rise in Malaria Seen in Pregnant Women Getting Iron Supplements...

No Rise in Malaria Seen in Pregnant Women Getting Iron Supplements
September 09, 2015 | Many doctors recommend that pregnant women who suffer from anemia be given supplements to raise the level of iron, an essential nutrient, in their blood.

But that rarely occurs in developing countries, experts say, given all of the other health challenges they face, including higher rates of malaria. There is some evidence that iron supplementation increases the risk of malaria in children. It’s thought the immediate production of new red blood cells after treatment begins makes kids more attractive targets for disease-carrying mosquitoes. But a new study in Kenya found virtually no difference in malaria risk among pregnant women who took iron supplements and those who didn't.

A mother holds her baby as she receives a malaria vaccination at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kenya

Hans Verhoef, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, led the study of 470 pregnant women, 60 percent of whom were anemic at the beginning. He said the extra iron given to half of those women increased the duration of their pregnancies and the weight of their newborns. “In those women, we do find an increase in birth weight by 250 grams, which is absolutely massive," Verhoef said. The study indicates that iron supplementation "certainly should go full steam ahead and that we should really try to increase coverage of that." Low birth weight increases the risk of infant death and disabilities. While iron supplements appeared to improve pregnancy outcomes, it had no impact on malaria infection. Fifty percent of the women given iron contracted the disease, compared with just over half of the women who received a placebo.

The findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, along with a commentary by Robert Black of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. While he welcomed the news that iron supplements did not raise the risk of malaria, he warned against relying on them to protect against the disease. “Where that prevention or treatment of malaria is not present or not very strong, we don’t know if there could be some risk [to iron supplementation]," he said. "So I think that’s the only caveat. But I think when the iron is given in the malaria setting, it’s very important to deal with the malaria as well as provide the iron.” The authors noted that their results might apply to pregnant women in other low- and middle-income countries, although the effect on birth weight can vary depending on the prevalence of iron deficiency.

No Rise in Malaria Seen in Pregnant Women Getting Iron Supplements

 

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Humanity suffers while Sally posts their travails from the comfort of her easy chair.

 

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Dengue fever breaks out in India...

India Grapples with Dengue Fever Outbreak
September 16, 2015 — As the Indian capital battles its worst outbreak of dengue fever in five years, health authorities have announced a series of measures to ensure treatment for patients. This follows reports that two schoolboys died after being turned away by hospitals.

Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal threatened to cancel the licenses of private hospitals if they denied admission to patients suffering from dengue fever. He said they would bring about a special law in the Delhi Assembly to deal with hospitals that turn away people. The outbreak of the mosquito-borne fever in the Indian capital hit the spotlight after the families of two schoolboys said their children died after a number of private hospitals refused to admit them.
The parents of one of them jumped off a four-story building on September 10 citing the death of their seven-year-old son, Avinash Rout, as the reason in a suicide note. Media reports said he was turned away by five private hospitals and by the time he was admitted to one, his condition had deteriorated. Eleven people have died in the city due to dengue in recent weeks. More than 1800 cases of the tropical disease have been reported, which usually strikes during the monsoon season and peaks around October. That is the highest number since 2010.

Indian patient, Aishwarya Gupta (4) lies on a bed in the dengue ward of a government hospital in New Delhi
Hospitals overwhelmed

Public and private hospitals have been overwhelmed by the influx of patients — there are reports of patients sharing beds. As the dengue scare gripped the capital, Delhi’s Health minister, Satyendra Jain, asked people not to panic and assured them that they would not be denied treatment. He said the government has ordered 1000 more beds to treat dengue patients. He said hospitals have been instructed not to turn away people in serious condition and even if they did not have beds, they should stabilize the patient. Authorities have ordered surprise inspections, doctors' leave requests have been cancelled and hospitals have been asked to hire more nurses to cope with the influx of patients.
The government also announced that laboratories should not charge more than $9 for dengue tests — the charges in private labs are up to four times higher. Health experts say the dengue outbreak has exposed the inadequacy of public health measures in India. The number of hospital beds, for example, has not kept pace with the country’s rising population. Delhi has 2.7 beds per 1000 people, much higher than the national average but only about half of the five per 1000 population recommended by the World Health Organization.

India Grapples with Dengue Fever Outbreak

 

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Remarkable progress made but more still needs to be done...

More Needs to Be Done in Fighting Malaria, CDC Chief Says
September 18, 2015 — The world has made remarkable progress against malaria in the past 10 to 15 years. Deaths have been cut by half. More people are getting treated. And research on an effective vaccine continues. Yet more needs to be done.

Eighty percent of malaria cases and 78 percent of deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Most of those who die are young children. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told VOA that in some African hospitals, 60 percent of the patients suffer from malaria. During the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Frieden made three visits to the region, where malaria is pervasive and can be contracted year-round. At one hospital he visited, he said, "I walked with a father who was carrying his 4-year-old son, who was dying from malaria. So it’s still a deadly problem in Africa. We need to persist in our activities, expand them and also figure out new ways to stop this terrible disease."

Frieden said there are ways to prevent and treat malaria. He said more children should sleep under bed nets, which keep mosquitoes from biting them. He would like to see both children and adults receive better medical treatment. In addition, he said, new treatments must be developed as traditional ones lose their effectiveness. "We’re seeing real problems with drug resistance," he explained. "Use of the pills that have combinations of what are called ACTs, or artemisinin combination treatments, in place should reduce the likelihood that the drugs that people take cause resistance in the malaria parasite, but we’re seeing pesticide resistance to some of the pesticides in the bed nets."

Untreated cases

In West Africa, until very recently, most medical resources went to fight Ebola, and malaria patients went untreated. Mateusz Plucinski, an epidemiologist with CDC's global health division, told VOA, ”Whenever you have more malaria cases going untreated, first of all, one result is that you have more malaria deaths." Plucinski and other researchers did a study at the request of the Guinean government to learn what effect the Ebola epidemic had on malaria control. They found that some 74,000 people stopped receiving anti-malarial medicine and that people largely stopped going to health facilities when they had a fever, especially in areas with the greatest number of Ebola cases.

The researchers concluded that many more people died of malaria than the number of people who died of Ebola during the worst part of the epidemic. And, although Sierra Leone and Liberia were not included in the study, Plucinski said he expected the same to be true in those countries. The study was published in the September issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Although funding increases have led to unprecedented malaria treatment and prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa, much more still needs to be done. Frieden summed it up this way: "We have to continue to find breakthroughs on malaria. We have to look for a vaccine or for a way to control mosquitoes more effectively, because malaria remains a horrible challenge." Experts say malaria can be prevented and controlled. The challenge is to do it.

More Needs to Be Done in Fighting Malaria, CDC Chief Says

 

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Variations in genes protect some African children from developing severe malaria...

Scientists ID Genes That Protect African Children From Malaria
September 30, 2015 — Scientists have identified specific genetic variations that protect some African children from developing severe malaria and say their discovery will boost the fight against a disease that kills about half a million children annually.

In the largest study of its kind, the researchers said identifying the variations in DNA at a specific location, or locus, on the genome helps explain why some children develop severe malaria and others don't in communities where people are constantly exposed to the mosquito-borne disease. In some cases, they said, having a specific genetic variation almost halves a child's risk of developing a life-threatening case of the disease. "We can now say, unequivocally, that genetic variations in this region of the human genome provide strong protection against severe malaria in real-world settings, making a difference to whether a child lives or dies," said Dominic Kwiatkowski, a professor at the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Institute and Centre for Human Genetics and one of the lead researchers on the project.

A health worker prepares to give medication intravenously to a South Sudanese child who has tested positive for malaria, in the Ayilo refugee resettlement camp in Uganda.

The work was conducted by MalariaGEN, an international network of scientists across Africa, Asia and other malaria-endemic regions, largely funded by the Wellcome Trust. Malaria killed about 584,000 people in 2013, according to World Health Organization figures. Around 90 percent of its victims are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. For this study, researchers analyzed data from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Gambia and Tanzania — comparing the DNA of 5,633 children with severe malaria with the DNA of 5,919 children without severe malaria. They then replicated their key findings in a further 14,000 children.

Publishing their work in the journal Nature, the researchers explained that the new locus they identified is near a cluster of genes that code for proteins called glycophorins, which are involved in the malaria parasite's invasion of red blood cells. "This new resistance locus is particularly interesting because it lies so close to genes that are gatekeepers for the malaria parasite's invasion machinery," said Kwiatkowski. "We now need to drill down at this locus to characterize these complex patterns of genetic variation more precisely and to understand the molecular mechanisms by which they act." A particularly strongly protective variant, known in genetics as an allele, was found most commonly among children in Kenya, in East Africa. Having this allele reduces the risk of severe malaria by about 40 percent in Kenyan children, the study found.

Scientists ID Genes That Protect African Children From Malaria

 

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Philippines & Mexico clear use of Dengue Vaccine...

Two Countries Clear Use of World’s First Dengue Vaccine\
December 23, 2015 — The Philippines has granted approval for the sales of a new dengue vaccine, following Mexico as the first two countries to allow a treatment that could prevent the flu-like illness that threatens half the world’s population.

The recombinant, live, attenuated tetravalent vaccine (CYD-TDV) is the first to hit the market targeting dengue, which is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito and can cause crippling fevers, along with muscle and joint pain. Dengvaxia, as it has been named by its maker France-based Sanofi Pasteur, comes at a time when a “safe and effective vaccine is urgently needed,” according to the World Health Organization. The new vaccine “has demonstrated clinical efficacy and a good safety profile,” according to medical researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in a paper recently published in the Southeast Asia Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit dengue fever.​

Sanofi Pasteur said the vaccine has been demonstrated effective against all four dengue virus types. “The vaccine actually is given in three dose schedules with a six-month interval. It is being given (to people) from nine years of age up to 45 years of age. This is the age range wherein most of the dengue cases are being reported, particularly in endemic countries here in Asia,” according to Dr. Joselito Santa Ana, head of dengue vaccine operations in the region for Sanofi Pasteur.

Hopes for dramatic reductions by 2020

The vaccine’s maker is hailing it as an important tool to reach the World Health Organization’s objective on dengue, a potentially deadly disease for which children are at particular risk. “Together with vector control it will form an integrated approach in reducing dengue mortality by 50 percent and reducing the dengue morbidity by more than 25 percent by 2020,” Dr. Santa Ana, speaking from Manila, told VOA on Wednesday. Clinical tests were carried out on 40,000 people from 15 countries. Some two-thirds of those over the age of nine were deemed to be protected and the vaccine was found to be 93 percent effective against the most severe form of disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Dengue patient Ritika Srivastava, 22, lays on a bed covered with a mosquito net in the dengue ward of a government hospital in Allahabad, India.​

While being hailed as a breakthrough, there is concern about vaccinating younger children and an unanswered question about the new vaccine’s long-term efficacy. A higher incidence of hospitalization in the third year after vaccination among children younger than nine years of age naturally infected with dengue raises a “critical question” whether this is a short-term or long-term phenomenon” noted an editorial in the September 24 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine which suggested booster doses of the vaccine might reduce this risk.

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As we can see, living in a shariah shithole is wonderful.

 

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Granny tellin' Uncle Ferd don't go kissin' dem Hawaiian womens...

Dengue fever prompts Hawaii campground, trail, road closures
15 Jan.`16 — Hawaii officials closed a Big Island road, campground and hiking trail in an effort to stop the spread of a dengue fever outbreak that has sickened 223 residents and visitors as of Friday.

Five of those cases could be potentially infectious, according to the Hawaii Department of Health. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources closed the Muliwai hiking trail on the far cliff side of Waipio Valley and its Waimanu Valley campground on Friday. Hawaii County's Civil Defense Agency blocked all traffic to Waipio Valley Access Road on Thursday and limited access to residents. The road closure comes three weeks after health officials closed access to state lands near Milolii and Honomalino Bay, which were "hotspots" for the mosquito-borne virus.

The agency sprayed the area to kill the insects and met with residents and local tour operators, said Darryl Oliveira, Hawaii County's civil defense administrator. So far, health officials have not identified other potential problem areas, he said. "Ideally, if we can prevent people from being bitten for a month or two and go beyond the life of mosquitoes, the virus would die off," Oliveira said, adding that a mosquito can live for up to a month. Health officials are holding weekly community meetings in Kona and Hilo to help educate the public. They also are spraying infected homes and other areas identified as potential sources of infection. Since September, officials have surveyed more than 250 sites and sprayed for mosquitoes 524 times.

Since the outbreak started in September 2015, 201 Hawaii residents and 22 visitors have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus. It is the biggest of three dengue fever outbreaks in Hawaii since 2001. The second-largest outbreak started in Maui in 2001 when 122 cases were reported. It lasted almost a year, beginning in the rural region of Hana and spreading to areas with lush vegetation and heavy rainfall. Another outbreak occurred on Oahu in 2011 when five people got infected. Officials say it's safe to travel to the Big Island, and visitors can reduce their risk of infection by wearing mosquito repellent and covering up with long clothing. "The partnership with the community is going to be key with fighting the virus and eventually eradicating it," Oliveira said.

Dengue fever prompts Hawaii campground, trail, road closures

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Vaccine sought for zika virus...

Brazil to fund development of vaccine for Zika virus
Jan. 16, 2016 — The Brazilian government says it is directing funds to a biomedical research center to help develop a vaccine against a virus linked to brain damage in babies.

Health Minister Marcelo Castro says the goal is to develop "in record time" a vaccine for Zika, which is spread through mosquito bites.

Zika infection in pregnant women has been linked to a rare condition called microcephaly, in which the head is smaller than normal and the brain does not develop properly. Brazil's Health Ministry says 3,530 babies have been born with microcephaly in the country since October.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert Friday advising pregnant women to avoid traveling to Brazil and several other countries in the Americas where Zika outbreaks have occurred.

Brazil to fund development of vaccine for Zika virus

 

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New test kits for mosquito-borne viruses...

Brazil Zika outbreak: New test kits for mosquito-borne viruses
16 Jan.`16 - The Brazilian Health ministry says it's developed new testing kits to rapidly identify the presence of three viruses - Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya - all carried by the same mosquito.

Health Minister Marcelo Castro said priority for testing would be given to pregnant women. Brazil has the largest known outbreak of Zika, which has been linked to a sharp spike in birth defects. Mr Castro also announced extra funds to speed up finding a vaccine for Zika. He said that the goal was to develop a vaccine "in record time". At the moment the only way to fight Zika is to clear standing water where mosquitoes breed. The aim is that the tests will speed up diagnosis and ensure patients get correct medical treatment fast.

The Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes are the transmitters of all three viruses​

Since October around 3,530 babies have been born with microencephaly, which can lead to small heads and under-developed brains. Fewer than 150 cases of microencephaly were seen in Brazil throughout 2014. The US State Department confirmed its first case of a baby born with brain damage because of infection by the Zika virus. The baby was born in a hospital in Oahu, Hawaii. The Hawaii State Department of Health said the mother was believed to have contracted Zika while living in Brazil in May 2015 and that the baby was most likely infected in the womb.

Most of the cases of microencephaly in Brazil have been in the poorer north-eastern states​

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert on Friday advising pregnant women to avoid travelling to Brazil and other Latin American and Caribbean countries where outbreaks of Zika have been registered. The travel alert applies to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Zika virus is transmitted by the Aedes species mosquito.

Brazil Zika outbreak: New test kits for mosquito-borne viruses - BBC News

 

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I got a black plague shot in boot camp that is good for life. It was only a little shot that made me feel ill for a few days.

 

[irosie91]

I got a black plague shot in boot camp that is good for life. It was only a little shot that made me feel ill for a few days.

as far as I know ---the efficacy of the bubonic plague vaccine is still under study----
fret not

 

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Dengue fever outbreak in Pakistan...

Telephone Hotline in Pakistan Predicts Dengue Outbreaks
July 08, 2016 - Predicting an outbreak of dengue fever could be just a phone call away. A telephone helpline is assisting public health officials in Pakistan predict the incidence of the mosquito-borne disease.

Researchers have created a computer algorithm that uses hotline reports from the public to help forecast the number of dengue cases, two to three weeks before there’s an actual outbreak. By knowing how many people could become infected, public health officials can take preventive measures to limit the impact of dengue on a community. Lakshmi Subramanian, a professor of mathematical sciences at New York University, said the computer model is extremely accurate. “So this is telling you in [these] particular localities, the number could vary between five and seven within the next two weeks; it could vary between 17 and 19 over the next two, three weeks,” he said. “It’s actually giving you the exact range. And that is more powerful than,'Oh, I think an outbreak is going to happen or an outbreak is not going to happen.'” He added that an outbreak can even be traced to particular neighborhoods and blocks within those areas. Subramanian and colleagues described their computer model in the journal Science Advances.

A woman holds her son, suffering from dengue fever, as she sits under a mosquito net inside a dengue ward of a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan​

Hotline origin

An estimated 400,000 people are infected with dengue fever each year. Worldwide, an estimated 2.5 billion people are at risk of contracting dengue, which causes sudden high fever, severe headaches and agonizing joint and muscle pain. Parasite-infected mosquitoes spread the illness, for which there is still no cure or vaccine. In 2011, the Pakistani province of Punjab was blindsided by a severe outbreak of dengue, which infected more than 21,000 people and took 350 lives. Unprepared for the onslaught, hospitals in Punjab were swamped. Since then, researchers in the United States and Pakistan developed a telephone hotline to help forecast the scope of a particular dengue outbreak. The computer algorithm that feeds information from callers into the prediction model.

Hotline response

So far, some 300,000 people have called the hotline with questions about the symptoms of dengue. They also report areas where there is still water or open sewage that could be a breeding ground for dengue mosquitoes. The information from the algorithm can be widely disseminated to help hospitals prepare for a dengue outbreak. Proactively, public health workers can eliminate standing pools of water and use insecticides to kill mosquitoes. The authors say the hotline-based system is economical and does not require a huge effort to collect and analyze disease incidence information.

A boy tries to outrun a man fumigating for mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever, on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan​

The study’s first author, Nabeel Abdur Rehman, said a hotline has also been established to pinpoint outbreaks of polio, a disease that has been virtually eradicated worldwide but for a few remaining cases in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rehman, a doctoral student at NYU, said similar systems can be set up to help identify suspected cases of malaria and influenza. “So, to some extent, it’s very generic and can be deployed in any other parts of the country and any other countries because it’s cost-effective and it can be developed for any other disease.” With information from the hotline and disease prevention efforts, the authors say the number of dengue cases in Lahore fell to 1600 cases in 2013.

Telephone Hotline in Pakistan Predicts Dengue Outbreaks

 

[irosie91]

malaria and dengue fever are not so much a problem as is
the real horror-----cholera ---which, however, CAN be treated. ---another likely misery is "polio" as in poliomyelitis-----there are probably a whole lot of unvaccinated people in both Pakistan and
Yemen. Btw-----same is likely true in the "refugee" population---afterall-----there is lots of islamo Nazi literature describing the polio vaccines as a ZIONIST PLOT

 

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'Worst Cholera Outbreak in the World' in Yemen...

Researchers Blame Saudi-Led Coalition for 'Worst Cholera Outbreak in the World' in Yemen
August 18, 2017 - The majority of deaths from Yemen's cholera outbreak have occurred in rebel-controlled areas cut off from supplies due to airstrikes and blockades by a Saudi-led military coalition, according to research published on Friday.

The study by London's Queen Mary University found eight out of 10 cholera deaths took place in regions controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels who have fought a two-year war against Saudi-aligned forces backing Yemen's government. Yemen is battling against the "world's worst cholera outbreak", according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More than half a million people have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and almost 2,000 people have died, the WHO said on Monday. "Saudi-led airstrikes have destroyed vital infrastructure, including hospitals and public water systems, hit civilian areas, and displaced people into crowded and insanitary conditions", Jonathan Kennedy, Andrew Harmer and David McCoy, the study's researchers, wrote.

People are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen​

The Saudi ministry for foreign affairs did not immediately respond to written questions or telephone calls. Yemen's devastating civil war has pitted a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia against an Iran-backed armed Houthi group, and economic collapse has made it difficult to deal with disease outbreaks such as cholera and mass hunger. The study compared data from the WHO with maps of government-controlled and rebel-controlled areas. The researchers found 78 percent of cholera cases and 81 percent of deaths from cholera occurred in Houthi-controlled regions. Only 10.4 per cent of deaths occurred in government-controlled areas.

The researchers said the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for the deadly outbreak, by causing shortages of food, medical supplies, fuel and chlorine, and restricting humanitarian access. Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of cholera, which causes acute diarrhea and dehydration, in Yemen where the health system has collapsed after more than two years of war, according to the WHO. Cholera, spread by ingestion of food or water tainted with human feces, can kill within hours if untreated. It has been largely eradicated in developed countries equipped with sanitation systems and water treatment.

Researchers Blame Saudi-Led Coalition for 'Worst Cholera Outbreak in the World' in Yemen

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Vietnam Dengue Cases Soar 42 Percent
August 18, 2017 — Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks, with more than 10,000 new infections reported in the past week stretching its medical system.

The number of admitted patients represents a 42 percent increase over the same period last year along with seven more deaths, the Ministry of Health said Friday. A total of 90,626 people have been infected, of whom 76,848 are hospitalized and 24 have died. The ministry attributed the rise of dengue outbreaks to higher temperatures, more rains and rapid urbanization that promote the breeding of virus-carrying mosquitoes.

Hospitals strained

Dr. Vu Minh Dien of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, where the most severe cases were being treated, said that 800-1,000 people have been checking in daily complaining of fever. That compares to only several cases that reported to the hospital in June and July last year, he said. Dien said about 300 dengue patients were being treated, stretching the hospital’s resources, including longer working hours without weekend leaves.

Mosquitoes with the dengue-blocking Wolbachia bacteria were released in the Tubiacanga neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 24, 2014. Similar actions took place in Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia to fight dengue fever.​

Tran Thi Xuyen, a fruit and vegetable seller in a small market in Son La province, said she did not know how she contracted dengue fever, which also infected her fellow saleswoman. “I took antibiotics prescribed by the local district hospital for four days, but the fever did not go away and I admitted myself to this hospital where doctors said I had dengue fever,” she said from her hospital bed.

Mosquito-killing campaign

There is no cure for any of the four strains of the mosquito-borne virus that causes high fever, exhaustion and in some cases a vicious skin rash. Patients most at risk of dying are the elderly, children or those with other medical complications. Hanoi and the southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City are the hardest hit.

The government Thursday urged residents to actively engage in killing mosquitoes and mosquito larvae, particularly at construction sites and housing for workers. “The joint efforts by the people as well as our political system in searching and eliminating mosquito larvae, emptying water containers, which are fertile for larvae to breed, and spraying chemicals to kill mosquitoes are key factors to curb dengue fever,” Dien said.

Vietnam Dengue Cases Soar 42 Percent

 

[irosie91]

BS---if IRAN had not fomented a civil war in Yemen by supplying the Houthi minority EXTENSIVELY with
armaments------and encouraging aggression against Iran and ADDING HEZBOLLAH SCUM to the mix
-----the problem would not exist. Malaria and cholera are endemic in Yemen as is starvation----any
stress exacerbates the problem.
Iran is also encouraging the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia itself ------to riot. The Shiites are in----I think---a north west little part of Saudi Arabia ----don't quote me. It is an Iranian made problem