YANGON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- At least 3,000 people have been infected with dengue fever in Myanmar so far this year, the local 7-Day news journal reported Wednesday without specifying the number of deaths caused by the disease.
Fresh dengue fever broke out in two populated suburban townships of Dagon Myothit (North and South) and Hlaingtharya in Yangon division late last month, affecting children of five years of age and above.
Giving priority to the two areas where disease-carrying mosquitoes have become a major concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), in cooperation with the Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association and the Myanmar Red Cross, have launched a 700,000-US-dollar anti-dengue-fever campaign in 11 storm-hit townships in Yangon and Ayeyawaddy divisions.
Preventive measures were carried out at primary schools and wards in Thakayta and Dagon Myothit-South townships with medical inspection teams giving educative talks and demonstration on the measures, earlier reports said.
Meanwhile, state media reported no outbreak of other contagious and epidemic diseases in the storm-hit areas, saying that a total of 206,039 storm patients had received medical treatment during a month after the cyclone storm hit the country on last May 2-3.
According to the Health Ministry's anti-malaria department, the dengue fever once reached a critical stage of level-3 in 2007 killing 100 out of 15,000 people infected with the disease, analyzing that such occurrence happened once a decade only.
Dengue fever usually breaks out in Yangon, Bago, Sagaing, Ayeyawaddy, Mon and Mandalay divisions and states especially in the rainy season which falls in the months of June, July and August.
The health authorities have occasionally advised people to take necessary measures to prevent and control the disease, including hygienic use of drinking water, combating larvae, week-end sanitation activities and education talks on the dengue fever, which is analyzed as being spread by a species of mosquito active during the day.
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