Pangkalpinang, Babel, April 4 (Antara) - Data from Bangka-Belitung (Babel) Islands Province showed that four people have died of dengue fever since January 2013, according to an official of the local health office.
"During the first two months of this year the dengue fever has claimed two lives in the districts of Bangka and South Bangka and West Bangka," Supriyadi, the head of Bangka-Belitung health office' disease control and prevention section, said here on Thursday.
He noted that the death of four dengue fever patients was because their families were late to send them to hospital for an intensive treatment.
Supriyadi explained that dengue-fever infected people should immediately be sent to hospital because dengue virus infection process develops very fast.
According to him, dengue fever has spread to many districts in Bangka-Belitung up to March this year with a total of 264 cases.
Meanwhile, seven people were reported to have died of the disease in Central Java provincial city of Semarang during the first three months of this year.
Mada G. Soebowo, the head of the Semarang health office's disease control and prevention section, said on Thursday that the seven fatalities were of 696 patients with the mosquito-borne viral infection.
Soebowo said there has been a massive uptick in the number of dengue fever cases in Semarang during the first three months of 2013 with 696 people were known to have been infected and seven others have died.
Compared to the same period from January to March 2012, the number of cases this year was much higher than that of last year which was recorded at 326.
"Dengue fever has now spread evenly to almost all areas in Semarang city with the number of fatalities was reported among others from the sub-districts of North Semarang, Banyumanik, Mijen, Tugu, and Pedurungan," Soebowo said.
Translated by O. Tamindael
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"During the first two months of this year the dengue fever has claimed two lives in the districts of Bangka and South Bangka and West Bangka," Supriyadi, the head of Bangka-Belitung health office' disease control and prevention section, said here on Thursday.
He noted that the death of four dengue fever patients was because their families were late to send them to hospital for an intensive treatment.
Supriyadi explained that dengue-fever infected people should immediately be sent to hospital because dengue virus infection process develops very fast.
According to him, dengue fever has spread to many districts in Bangka-Belitung up to March this year with a total of 264 cases.
Meanwhile, seven people were reported to have died of the disease in Central Java provincial city of Semarang during the first three months of this year.
Mada G. Soebowo, the head of the Semarang health office's disease control and prevention section, said on Thursday that the seven fatalities were of 696 patients with the mosquito-borne viral infection.
Soebowo said there has been a massive uptick in the number of dengue fever cases in Semarang during the first three months of 2013 with 696 people were known to have been infected and seven others have died.
Compared to the same period from January to March 2012, the number of cases this year was much higher than that of last year which was recorded at 326.
"Dengue fever has now spread evenly to almost all areas in Semarang city with the number of fatalities was reported among others from the sub-districts of North Semarang, Banyumanik, Mijen, Tugu, and Pedurungan," Soebowo said.
Translated by O. Tamindael
Editor : Rustam Effendi
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