November 30, 2009 11:25 AM

Dengue Affects 70 Percent Of Indonesia's Sukabumi Districts

SUKABUMI, Nov 30 (Bernama) -- The Health Service of Sukabumi district has declared 32 of its 47 subdistricts (70 percent) as dengue fever endemic areas, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported.

Head of Contagious Disease Control Section of the Sukabumi Health Service, Tejo Sriwijoyo, said that up to October this year a total of 593 people had suffered from dengue fever.

But the figure is smaller than that in the same period a year earlier.

"Up to October last year, the number of dengue sufferers had reached over 1,000 patients," Tejo said.

He said that the number of dengue endemic areas continued to increase since 2007. Only in two years, the number of subdistricts affected by dengue fever had reached 32.

-- BERNAMA

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