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Dengue patients flood the general hospital in Tangerang. According to the latest information there are now some 400 patients being treated in the hospital since the start of this year. A number of rooms in the hospital is now completely filled with dengue patients. In general the patients are still treatable.
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Researchers at the Indonesian Mosquito Control Association have discovered that 30 percent of male Aedes aegypti mosquito's have also become a vector for the dengue virus. This finding has changed the long-standing perception that only female Aedes aegypti mosquito's carried the virus. This finding also signals that the disease is becoming endemic in Indonesia, according to Dr. Tri Baskoro, secretary general of the association.
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The number of victims to the seasonal dengue fever outbreak since last January has reached 380 out of 27,000 infected people. This was announced by the Health Ministry on Tuesday. The head of the Sub Directorate of Arbovirosis, Rita Kriastuti, warned to be cautious for the aedes aegipti mosquito as it's favorable moment to infect people lasts until the end of the wet season.
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Jakarta increased the number of so-called 'dengue red zones' from 61 to 88 according to Antara News Agency. "In our weekly evaluation of the dengue fever situation, there were 88 zones in Jakarta been established as red-alert areas today, " told Salimar Salim, deputy head of the Jakarta City Health Office on the day of the launch of a dengue prevention program.
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A seasonal dengue fever outbreak in Indonesia has killed at least 307 people and sickened more than 20,000 others this year, health officials and local media reports said Wednesday. Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari warned of a possible major spike in mosquito-borne dengue fever cases during the next two weeks because of torrential rains last week that flooded the capital Jakarta and two neighbouring provinces.
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As many as 252 people have died of dengue fever in Indonesia since early this year while the number of dengue cases in the country has reached 15,005, Health Ministry spokesperson Lily S Sulistyowati said at a press conference here on Friday. 27 people died in 1,807 cases recorded across the country this month, the Antara news agency quoted the spokesperson as saying.
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A seasonal dengue fever outbreak in 14 of Indonesia’s 33 provinces has killed at least 75 people and sickened more than 4,800 others since New Year’s Day, health officials and local media reports said yesterday. But this month’s figure was much less than the same period of last year when dengue fever infected more than 18,900 people in all 33 provinces and claimed the lives of 192 people, said Erna Tresnaningsih, the health ministry’s director for animal-borne diseases control.
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With the increasing number of dengue fever cases in Yogyakarta, the city administration announced Thursday it had become an extraordinary situation requiring immediate measures to combat its spread. "We've decided that dengue has become an extraordinary situation following a field survey, which showed the number of dengue fever patients in the last two months had risen substantially," said the head of the city's health office, Choirul Anwar.
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A total of 1,099 people died of dengue fever in Indonesia in 2005, a health ministry official said in Jakarta Tuesday. "The number is higher than last year's 957," said Rita Kusriastuti, head of the subdirectorate of arboviruses of the directorate general of disease control and environmental health.
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As the number of dengue patients continues to rise in hospitals across the city, a general practitioner is advising people here to eliminate the possibility of getting bitten by a mosquito. Aside from asking the people to cover their water containers and clean them regularly, the practitioner is also urging the public to change their lifestyle.
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The spread of dengue in Central Java province has reached alarming proportions with 80 fatalities having been reported since January this year, a senior health official said on Tuesday. The 80 fatalities were out of a total of 3,531 dengue cases reported to health officials during the same period, said Central Java provincial health office director Budihardja.
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As the number of dengue fever patients increases, the city-owned Cibinong hospital in Bogor has prepared additional beds. The hospital treated 15 patients this month for dengue, eight of them children, hospital spokeswoman Wahyu Kurdijanti said on Wednesday. One of the children, seven-year-old Gunawan died last week. "We have treated 361 dengue fever patients since January, six of whom have died," she said.
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Another 20 people have died from dengue fever in Indonesia, bringing the death toll this year to 122. A further 6,400 people have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus, prompting the government to place Jakarta and five other provinces under alert for a possible dengue epidemic.
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A dengue fever outbreak in Indonesia appears to have peaked, though people are still being sickened by the virus that has already killed more than 600 people, health officials said Tuesday. Since January, the mosquito-borne virus has sickened 53,744 people and killed 632 people -- most of them on the country's main island of Java. But in the last month, the numbers have started to return to what authorities normally see during the rainy season which ends later this month.
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A virulent outbreak of dengue fever has claimed 632 victims out of 53,744 reported cases so far this year which is still below the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in 2003, health officials said on Monday. Last year there were 52,011 reported cases of dengue in Indonesia of whom 792 died, or a mortality rate of 1.5 percent, said Rita Kusriastuti, a dengue expert at the ministry of health. "The dengue outbreak this year should be pretty similar to last year's" said Kusriastuti.
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From 1 January to 4 April 2004 a total of 52,013, mainly hospitalized cases of dengue and 603 deaths have been registered with the Indonesian Ministry of Health. The overall case-fatality rate this year, particularly in Jakarta, has been lower than in previous years.
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Irregularities had been found among 16 recommended hospitals supposed to provide free medical services for poor dengue fever patients, the Jakarta Health Agency admitted on Thursday. However, the agency said it would not impose any sanctions on the hospitals. "The 16 hospitals recommended by the agency should have provided free treatment and should have not charged any fees, including medicine and administration fees, as long as the patients are being treated at third-class wards and suffer from dengue," agency official Murdiati Umbas said.
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Indonesia says an outbreak of dengue fever, which has killed 452 people this year, is showing signs of slowing. The Health Ministry says the worst of the outbreak has passed and it expects to bring the disease under control within a few weeks. More than 34,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been recorded since the start of the year.
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The death toll of the dengue fever across Indonesia since January has increased to 415 and the sufferers to 30,234, a spokeswoman of the health ministry said here Thursday. "The cumulative figure for people died from January is 415, and the total sufferers is 30,234," Mariani Reksoprojo told Xinhua. She said that Jakarta is still the mostly infected area.
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Indonesian health officials say they are overwhelmed by the rapid spread of a dengue fever outbreak, as the death toll jumped to 322 on Friday from 260 the day before. With hospitals full and the poor finding treatment hard to get, officials fear the toll could climb fast despite a campaign of insecticide fogging aimed at killing the mosquito species that carries the dengue virus.
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Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri is planning a televised address to convey her shock over Indonesia’s highest ever death toll from dengue fever. By yesterday, the outbreak had killed 260 people in 22 of Indonesia’s 32 provinces and sickened more than 14,625 others since the disease was first detected last month, the health ministry said.
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SCIENTISTS have started collecting hundreds of blood samples from Indonesia's worst-hit dengue fever areas to determine whether they are contending with a new strain of the mosquito-borne virus. The outbreak had killed 256 people as of Wednesday in 19 of Indonesia's 32 provinces and infected more than 14,000 others, the health ministry said.
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Singapore has stepped up monitoring for dengue fever, which has killed at least 255 people in neighbouring Indonesia in an outbreak that has made thousands ill. A spokeswoman for Indonesia's health ministry said authorities were still waiting for test results to find out whether a deadly new strain of the virus was responsible for the high number of deaths in the world's fourth most populous nation.
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Dengue fever has spread in Indonesia killing at least 229 people and infecting about 12,338 in the first two months of the year, with the capital, Jakarta, having a fifth of the deaths, a government health official said. Most cases are on the island of Java, where more than half of the country's 231 million people live, and are concentrated in Jakarta, said Thomas Suroso, director for animal-borne diseases. Jakarta has a population of about 10 million people.
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The death toll from an outbreak of dengue fever in Indonesia rose to 224 on Sunday, a health official said. Since the start of the year, at least 11,756 people in 20 provinces have been infected with the virus, said Dr Rita Kusriastuti of the health ministry. In Jakarta alone the mosquito-borne disease has killed 47 people this year, she said.
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More than 200 people have now died in Indonesia's dengue fever outbreak and infections have topped 11,000, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. "As of 21 February, the Health Ministry received reports of 11,013 people infected and the number of deaths has reached 215 people," a ministry spokeswoman said.
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Dengue fever has spread to four more Indonesian provinces, as the national death toll for the year so far rises to 191. Indonesia's Health Department says another 9,700 people from 16 provinces have become infected with the virus. The department has called it an "extraordinary" outbreak, because the number of infections is more than double that of the same period last year.
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A new virus strain could be responsible for an outbreak of dengue fever in Indonesia that has killed at least 169 people since the start of the year, health officials said Wednesday. "I think it's a new strain. That's why we have asked microbiology experts at universities to conduct research," said Rita Kusriastuti, head of the health ministry's arbovirology section.
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Indonesian Minister of Health Achmad Suyudi said here the death toll in dengue cases in Indonesia since January reached 175 as of Thursday. The minister told reporters that the victims were found in eight provinces in the country.
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The death toll from a dengue fever outbreak hitting Indonesia's sprawling archipelago has climbed to 161, said health ministry data on Wednesday. Dengue fever has traditionally been a killer across the world's fourth-most-populous nation, but the death toll so far this year is more than double the same period last year. The latest figure was compiled from all of Indonesia's 32 provinces, while a count of 91 dead on Tuesday covered just seven and excluded densely populated Central Java.
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The frantic clean-up drives and fumigation of neighborhoods affected by the dengue fever outbreak will do little to stem the disease if people do not change their living habits, said a health official. "People tend to forget the danger of dengue fever if there are no victims in their neighborhood in the off season, while they clean their houses in a panic when somebody dies nearby," said head of the Tanah Abang Community Health Center Dr. Benny Patuwo.
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An outbreak of dengue fever has killed 91 people in six Indonesian provinces since the start of the year. A health ministry official says the densely-populated Java island is the worst hit, with at least 38 people reported dead in East Java province and 17 others in the capital Jakarta. The official says the situation is dire and needs immediate handling.
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An outbreak of dengue fever has killed 91 people in six Indonesian provinces since the start of the year, a health official said. The densely-populated Java island is the worst hit, with at least 38 people reported dead in East Java province and 17 others in the capital Jakarta, health ministry spokeswoman Mariani Reksoprojo said. "The situation is dire and needs immediate handling," she said.
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An outbreak of dengue fever has killed 77 people across Indonesia and infected thousands more, health officials said on Tuesday. Health officials said that 4,500 people have been hospitalised for the mosquito-borne disease -- twice the rate of last year -- mostly in capital Jakarta and other parts of East Java, including the city of Yogyakarta.
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An outbreak of dengue fever has killed 17 people in the Indonesian capital and infected thousands more, health officials said on Monday. As of Monday, health officials in Jakarta said 2,518 people in the capital had been hospitalised for the mosquito-borne disease -- twice the rate of last year. "The number of dengue fever cases is extraordinarily high," Indonesia's Health Minister Achmad Suyudi said.
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The Jakarta's Crisis Monitoring Center announced on Friday that there have been 287 cases of dengue fever in the capital, with the highest number in the Palmerah subdistrict, where there have been 20 reported cases since January 2 this year, Antara reported. The elderly and others over 46 years old, suffered the most with 192 cases, health officials said.
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Three hundred and sixty-six people suffered from dengue fever and one person died from the disease between January and August of this year, a health agency official said on Monday. Bogor Health Agency chief Triwandha Elan said that last year 631 people suffered from dengue fever and five people died. He said that the Bogor administration was trying to free the city of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which is transmitted by the aedes mosquito.
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