Published Date: 2002-01-15 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/EDR> Dengue/DHF updates (01): 14 Jan 2002
Archive Number: 20020115.3265
DENGUE/DHF UPDATES (01): 14 JAN 2002
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See Also
2001----
Dengue/DHF updates (01): 8 Jan 2001 20010108.0064
Dengue/DHF updates (21): 18 Dec 2001 20011218.3058
2000
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Dengue/DHF - Indonesia (Jakarta) 20000305.0301
Dengue/DHF - Indonesia (Jakarta) (02) 20000312.0329
Dengue/DHF - Indonesia (Java) 20000514.0751
Dengue/DHF - Indonesia, Honduras 20000615.0974
Dengue/DHF: updates, 12 Dec 2000 20001212.2172
Dengue/DHF: updates, 7 Nov 2000 20001107.1945
1997
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Dengue/DHF - Cuba (02) 19970618.1299
Dengue/DHF - Cuba (11) 19971112.2292
Dengue/DHF - Cuba: doctor sentenced 19971125.2360
Dengue/DHF - Cuba: RFI 19970617.1287
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[2 Indonesia
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Date: Mon 14 Jan 2002
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Reuters Health eLINE, 14 Jan 2002 [edited
<http://www.reutershealth.com/frame2/eline.html>
Cuba: Biggest Dengue Fever Outbreak Since 1981
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Cuba began an emergency campaign over the weekend to contain the
worst outbreak of potentially lethal dengue fever since 1981, but did
not give figures of those infected despite widespread public concern.
Echoing a speech by President Fidel Castro 2 days ago, state media and
government officials on Sun 13 Jan 2002 hammered away at the need
for Cubans to clean the streets and allow fumigation of their homes to
minimize the spread of the disease. A viral infection transmitted by
mosquitoes, dengue fever is marked by high fever, rash, and pain in
the head, muscles, and joints. Its most dangerous form, hemorrhagic
dengue fever, can cause internal bleeding and death.
"War To The Death!" said state daily Juventud Rebelde in a barrage of
official information about the mosquitoes that transmit the disease.
This report contrasted with the official silence since Cubans began
talking about cases 6 months ago. State-run media said the epidemic
was concentrated in Havana, although cases had been reported as of 1
Jan 2002 in 95 of the Caribbean nation's 165 municipalities.
The last national outbreak of dengue was in 1981, killing 158 people.
More recently, there was a local outbreak in the eastern city of Santiago
de Cuba in 1997, but the new appearance of dengue appears more
serious, given the national attention being given to it and anecdotal
evidence on the streets of Havana.
"There is no alternative; the campaign has to be successful," Castro
said, adding that most of the dengue in the country was of the milder,
classic variety, though some cases had evolved into the potentially fatal
hemorrhaging dengue. He presided at a ceremony in Havana on Fri 11
Jan 2002 declaring "war" against the insects and launching fumigation
brigades made up of thousands of construction and other workers. "I
have been hearing about more and more hemorrhaging cases over the
last few weeks," an employee at a Havana hospital said. "If Fidel is
getting involved, you know the situation is serious." In Havana,
bulldozers could be seen over the weekend clearing rubble and garbage
from streets as 2-man fumigation teams misted homes to kill the insects.
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Date: Mon 14 Jan 2002
From: Pablo Nart <p.nart@virgin.net>
Source: Jakarta Post (via AP Worldstream), Fri 11 Jan 2002 [edited
Indonesia: Dengue Fever Outbreak in North Sulawesi
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In North Sulawesi the number of people hospitalized for dengue
increased to 25 on Thu 10 Jan 2002, since the disease hit Manado,
Bitung, and Minahasa on Tue 1 Jan 2002.
"There have been no fatalities," Nora Lumentut, the head of the
eradication of contagious diseases at the provincial health office, said
on Thu 10 Jan 2002. There were 21 patients on Wed 9 Jan 2002.
Dengue fever has hit the 3 areas following the continuous rains in
almost all areas in North Sulawesi. She added that 22 of the patients
were children. She said, however, that the spread of dengue fever in
the province was not serious. "We cannot say that the spread of the
disease is out of the ordinary. The number of patients is increasing, but
there have been no fatalities."
In a separate interview, Deetje Londa, spokesman for Manado's
Malalayang General Hospital, where all dengue patients in Manado are
being treated, said that the hospital had established a team to fight the
disease, saying that the spread of the disease had been classified as
significant, judging from the increasing number of patients.
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