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Sep 17, 2014
Deaths from dengue in Malaysia shot up this year, doubling that of 2012, as the tropical country battles with a raging mosquito-borne virus that claims hundreds of lives annually in Southeast Asia.
Four patients — three women and one man — died in the week ending Dec. 21, leaving 88 dead in Malaysia in the first 51 weeks of this year. Read More »
At least five people have died from dengue fever this month in Malaysia, where authorities are struggling to contain an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus that claims hundreds of lives annually in Southeast Asia.
The total number of dengue deaths for the year now stands at 79, more than double the 34 deaths recorded in 2012. Cases of the virus have also spiked, with 37,698 dengue cases reported as of Dec. 7, an 85% increase from the 20,387 cases reported in the same period a year earlier, according to data from Malaysia’s Health Ministry. Read More »
By Jake Maxwell Watts
Authorities in Singapore are warning that Singapore’s most deadly outbreak of dengue fever since 2005 could get worse, after the disease claimed its seventh victim despite a vigorous effort by the government to control the epidemic.
More than 20,000 cases of the tropical, mosquito-borne disease have been identified in Singapore so far in 2013, spawning a series of multi-lingual YouTube videos about and a “Do The Mozzie Wipeout” campaign, launch in April, that promotes a series of at-home steps one can go through to kill mosquitoes and stop the disease from spreading. Read More »
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Dengue fever has killed 45 people in Malaysia this year – a jump of more than a third from same period last year — as the tropical country struggles to tame a mosquito-borne virus outbreak that has plagued the Southeast Asian region for decades.
The disease has claimed hundreds of lives in the Southeast Asian region this year and is a chronic problem from Africa to Asia to Latin America. More than 2.5 billion people worldwide are at risk of being infected with the virus. According to the World Health Organization, outbreaks have been reported even in the Europe in recent years. Read More »
MANILA – Guppies are cheap, have lots of babies and enjoy snacking on mosquito larvae.
That combination has captured the attention of scientists, who hope the popular fish known by its colorful, mermaid-like tail, can be enlisted in the fight against dengue fever, which kills about 20,000 people a year globally and has been especially vicious this year in parts of Southeast Asia. Read More »
An unusually severe dengue epidemic in Singapore has claimed its fifth fatality this year, even as health officials try to beat back the city-state’s worst-ever outbreak of the tropical disease.
The death of a 52-year-old man Tuesday came despite signs that government efforts to contain the mosquito-borne dengue virus—which has spread at an unusually rapid pace this year—were having an effect in reducing the pace of new infections in recent weeks.
As of Tuesday afternoon, officials had logged 14,363 cases of dengue fever this year, according to the National Environment Agency. The scale of the current epidemic has surpassed that of Singapore’s worst dengue outbreak in 2005, when authorities logged 14,006 confirmed cases and 27 deaths.
Singapore has entered its peak dengue season, from May to October, in which warmer temperatures help the dengue virus multiply faster. But weekly infection counts have declined steadily since June as the government intensified reduction efforts. Health officials logged 258 cases in the week ended Aug. 10, the seventh-straight week of decline since infections hit all-time high of 842 cases in the week ended June 22. Read More »
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