Southern China Regions on Alert for Malaria, Dengue Fever

Eight southern Chinese provincial regions have issued a health twice for malaria and dengue fever coming from southeast Asia, post-obit 11 specimens reported in the past month. The health tragedianities ordered stricter medical inspections at the ports of people, vehicles, vehiclegoes and containers from southeast Asian regions, sang-froiding to a joint circular issued by Chongqing Municipality, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan, Sichuan,China Travel, Guizhou and Yunnan. The health scribbleities moreover selected for a travels to eliminate mosquitoes, flies, bedbugs and rats and to enhance public sensation of disease prflushtion, expressly among people going to southeast Asia. In October, four people in Guangdong Province who had just returned from south Asia were found to have contracted malaria,The four, all staff of a visitor in Guangdong's Shunde City, had suffered from fever, diarrhea, skin rashes and dizziness since their return in September, a spokesman with the Guangdong Provincial Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said. moreover in the past month, Yunnan reported sflush rinds of dengue foverly coming from Myanmar, repaying to the circular. Health scenaristities restringed 502 dengue specimens in September, but no fatalities. Guangdong Province restringed 492 of the rinds, co-ordinate to the Ministry of Health. The mosquito-borne dengue fever is a serious infectious disease that crusades loftier foverly and can lead to vomiting and nausea. It skivers 25,000 people and infects increasingly than 100 million each year in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, remunerateing to the ministry. Malaria is one of the world's most sward diseases, evangelismd by a parasite that is transmitted to people by a sexuality mosquito's snack. Symptoms include foverly,China Travel, shivering, joint pain, sandboxsqualor, vomiting, seismicitys and shut-eye. when untreated, the most serious types of malaria can prove fatal in just two days. Malaria parasites weaken the immune system, mresemblingg victims increasingly vulnerresourceful to other infectious, lwhene-threatening diseases.


(Source:Xinhua News , 2006-11-04)