According to statistics of the Ministry of Health, accumulated from the beginning of the year, the whole country recorded 114,906 cases of dengue fever and 18 deaths.Compared to the same period, the number of cases decreased by 20.2%, the number of deaths decreased by 22 shifts.
In Ho Chi Minh City, from November 11-17 (week 46), 695 cases of dengue fever, down 8.3% compared to the average of 4 weeks ago.The total number of dengue fever accumulated from the beginning of 2024 to week 46 was 12,013 shifts.Districts and districts have a high number of cases of over 100,000 people including District 1, District 7 and Thu Duc City.
Recently, at 3 Children's Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City are Children's Hospital 1, City Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital 2, continuously recording children's dengue fever, many hospitalization in loveSevere, multi -organ failure, dangerous due to subjective.
Experts said that dengue fever became more and more serious because they no longer appeared in the cycle but became an annual circulation.Earlier in our country noted that every 10 years will appear the peak once, Vietnam now has 2 peaks in just 4 years as 2019 with more than 300,000 and 2022 with 361,813 cases.
Vaccine is one of the solid solutions to help the strategy to control dengue more effectively.(Artwork: Nhu Loan)
Dengue fever is a disease caused by the dengue virus, which may flare into a large epidemic.Vietnam noted that all 4 strains of pathogenic viruses, of which the DEN-1 and Den-2 type appeared more, the DEN-2 type often involved in heavy and death.When infected, the body only immunity to the virus type.Therefore, a person may have dengue fever 4 times in his life.
Characteristics of the disease are fever, hemorrhagic and plasma escape, which can lead to coagulation disorders, organs, if not diagnosed early and timely treatment can lead to death.The disease has no specific drugs that mainly treat symptoms and monitor signs of hospitalization.
When the fever suddenly, continuously does not decrease, headache, patients need medical facilities to examine, avoid arbitrary medication and home infusion.Patients can take paracetamol to reduce fever and soothe pain;Avoid aspirin or ibuprofen because these two drugs may increase the risk of bleeding.
Dengue fever is a disease assessed by the World Health Organization as one of the top 10 threats to public health.The World Health Organization also assessed Vietnam in the group of countries suffered serious consequences due to dengue fever.
Theo các chuyên gia, vaccine có vai trò quan trọng trong phòng, chống dịch bệnh, giảm bớt khó khăn trong đời sống hàng ngày.The vaccination also reduces the risk of worse disease, does not cost hundreds of millions of dong for treatment.Vaccine is one of the solid solutions to help the strategy to control dengue more effectively.
Currently, Vietnam has a vaccine to prevent dengue fever.
Dengue vaccine produced by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Japan.The two -point injection regimen is three months apart, for people 4 years of age or older.The injection helps prevent the four strains of Dengue virus causing dengue fever, including Den-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4.Prevention efficiency is more than 80% and prevent up to 90% of the risk of hospitalization.After injection, some people may experience mild side effects such as pain, swelling at the injection site and mild fever.
Vaccine is expected to be a new weapon to help prevent and control dengue fever effectively, in the context of changing epidemiology, mosquitoes transmit disease, increase infection to humans.Liều nhắc lại để tăng cường miễn dịch chưa được khuyến cáo.
This is the first dengue vaccine to be circulated in Vietnam.So far, Takeda -produced vaccine has been approved in more than 30 countries, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.Vaccine is also approved and used for the national immunization program in Brazil and Argentina.
Despite the vaccine, but to prevent dengue fever effectively, parents and the community need to maintain prevention measures that the Ministry of Health has recommended, including:
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2. Regularly change the water in the vases, drop salt or chemicals to kill larvae into the bowl of water, tank, rockery, rockery tray ...
3. Remove waste materials, natural water cavity, turn over the items that can contain unused water, so that mosquitoes do not lay eggs.
4. Sleeping mosquito bites even during the day, wearing long -sleeved clothes, using mosquito spray, mosquito flavor, mosquito cream, mosquito electric racket ... to kill mosquitoes and mosquito prevention.
5. Actively coordinate with the health sector in the campaigns to kill larvae/larvae and chemical spraying prevention and control.
6.Do not arbitrarily treat at home.
In addition to the above measures, for children under 4 years of age can not be vaccinated, parents can refer to the market today, there are many products that support mosquitoes that are tested safely such as children's diapers.Wipe mosquitoes ...