103 people in Malaysia die of dengue fever this year

103 people in Malaysia die of dengue fever this year
Malaysian health minister Liao ZhongLai says on the 4th, up till now, 103 people have died of dengue fever already, increase by 51% compared with that of last year. Liao ZhongLai says, the cabinet has already established with vice-premier's curtain the cube declare a war in the committee for the president's dengue fever particularly, in order to seek the countermeasure. Dengue fever is a kind of acute viral infectious disease transmitted by black spot mosquito, typical symptom includes having a fever, having a headache and arthralgia,etc.. Dengue fever is divided into ordinary dengue fever and bleeding dengue fever, the latter has relatively high mortality. Liao ZhongLai says, black spot mosquito's index is 8.5% in Malaysia, the standard of World Health Organization is 1%. It means every 1000 families in Malaysia, 85 find that there are black spot mosquitoes. In order to prevent black spot mosquito from breeding, Malaysia determines, if find the environment of the black spot mosquito that the household breeds, enforce the law unit have the right, register one's residence inspection. The action team at county level is established too in all parts of the country at the same time, expect to reduce morbidity and mortality.

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