2009-05-17
Xinhua
Web Editor: Xu Leiying
The Cambodian government again asked the public to keep alert to prevent the upcoming peak of dengue fever, which has killed two people nationwide so far this year, national media said on Sunday.
"We are concerned about the outbreak of the dengue fever nationwide due to the rainy season started earlier this year, which fueled the spread of the epidemic," Chinese-language newspaper Cambodia Sin Chew Daily quoted the health officials as saying.
The number of infected cases has increased to 900 during the first four months, almost two times the number in the same period of 2008, according to earlier figure of the Health Ministry.
Moreover, it was spreading and more children have infected at the provinces of Kampong Spuen, Sihanukeville, Preah Vereng, kandal and Kampong Cham since March, the newspaper reported.
Usually, children under the 15 years old were the most fragile group to be attacked by the illness, and some 71 percent of the contaminated cases are to be children, it said.
The government has called on the people to clean their water- saving tanks frequently, kill mosquito eggs in their tanks with pesticide, and sleep in anti-mosquito nets.
According to official figures, 407 children out of a total of 39,851 infected cases of minors died of the disease in 2007, a rampant year for the disease in the kingdom.
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