JAKARTA - 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.
The health ministry had taken several measures to reduce the rate of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease that always spreads ahead of and after the rainy season through the aedes aegepti mosquito, she said. “The key to its prevention is the environment and the people,” Tresnaningsih was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency. “If the environment is free of pools of water which can be used by the mosquito to breed and the people maintain environmental health, the disease is surely more controllable.”
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JAKARTA - 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.
