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Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by
Aedes mosquitoes. (Naijagraphitti Imagebank)
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Cambodia registered 502 dengue fever cases in the
first four months of 2015, a 67 percent rise from 300 cases over the same
period last year, a health official said in a statement on Saturday.
"The
incident rate is 3.1 cases out of 100,000 people," Huy Rekol, director of
the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, said in
the statement.
Cihan /Xinhua report continues:
Despite
the increase in cases, the mosquito-borne disease killed only one kid during
the January-April period this year -- the same number as last year. The
official attributed the decline in fatal rate to the improvement of treatment
quality at public hospitals.
"This
result shows that Cambodian people are well-aware of how to prevent themselves
from dengue fever and timely send their sick children to hospitals for medical
treatments," he said. Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by Aedes
mosquitoes. The disease causes an acute illness of sudden onset that usually
follows symptoms such as headache, fever, exhaustion, muscle pain, swollen
glands, vomiting and rash.
In
Cambodia, the outbreak of dengue fever usually begins at the onset of the rainy
season in May and lasts until October.
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