Surveillance was carried out across 22 villages within a 10 km radius, covering a population of 28,172. Multiple rounds of field visits and sanitation measures were undertaken during the 10-day period in accordance with protocol.
The first local case of dengue fever recorded for the first time in more than a year in Hong Kong indicates that undiagnosed imported cases could lead to an outbreak in the coming months, a health official has warned, while stressing that the risk was preventable. The warning by Albert Au Ka-wing, head of the Centre for Health Protection’s communicable disease branch, came after one case was recorded in Tai Po last Thursday, in a patient with no travel history. “The first local dengue fever case...
Preventive measures have been intensified after H5N1 was confirmed in ward 16 of Udayanapuram grama panchayat in Vaikom taluk