Dengue cases in S. China province rise to 88
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-08-29 19:53 GUANGZHOU -- The number of
dengue cases in south China's Guangdong province has increased by ten since
Monday to 88, said the provincial health bureau on Tuesday.
Five cases involved people from Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand,
and the rest were all local residents, said the bureau.
Dengue is a serious infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes. It kills
25,000 people and infects more than 100 million each year in tropical and
subtropical regions worldwide, according to China's Ministry of Health.
Since the 1990s, dengue has broken out occasionally in Guangdong and
neighboring Fujian province, mostly on a small scale. Large outbreaks took place
in Fujian in 1999 and in east Zhejiang province in 2004.
The ministry has announced a nationwide monitoring of dengue to gather
details of epidemic conditions and analyze dissemination patterns so the disease
can be detected rapidly and treated.
Sixteen monitoring sites will be set up in the southern provinces of
Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan, Hainan and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
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