The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised all people to maintain environmental hygiene around their homes as Cambodia is facing an outbreak of dengue fever. The first 11 weeks of the year saw over 1,300 dengue cases, including four deaths.
Leang Rithea, director of the Ministry of Health’s National Dengue Control Programme (NDCP), said that from January 1 to February 7, more than 400 cases of dengue fever were recorded in Cambodia.
The dengue fever situation may escalate this year, warned an official from the Ministry of Health’s National Dengue Control Programme (NDCP). A thorough cleanup of mosquito habitats in all communities will be necessary if this is to be avoided.
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In a little more than six months, dengue fever cases have risen to nearly 3,000 and killed several people. This was a threefold increase over the same period last year, according to the National Dengue Control Programme (NDCP).