A patient at the Lviv Regional Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital was diagnosed with Dengue fever. After a trip to Indonesia, the man sought medical attention with a rash and high fever. This was reported on November 27 by Natalia Ivanchenko-Timko, director of the Lviv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on Facebook, writes UNN.
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As the patient recounted, he was bitten by mosquitoes during his trip to Indonesia. These insects transmit Dengue fever, a viral disease prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, including Indonesia.
Thus, according to the director of the regional CDC, the risk of contracting Dengue fever is high in Southeast Asian countries, especially in urban and suburban areas. The source of infection is sick people, monkeys, and the reservoir is mosquitoes of the genus Aedes and subgenus Stegomyia, and bats can also be involved. The disease can also be transmitted during transfusions of infected blood or from mother to child during childbirth.
In Lviv, doctors suspected Dengue fever in the tourist in time. Subsequently, the disease was confirmed by laboratory tests.
For reference
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, including Indonesia. In Indonesia, as in other Southeast Asian countries, the risk of infection is high, especially in urban and suburban areas.
Dear tourists! If you are traveling to countries with a large number of mosquitoes - carriers of infectious diseases - take repellents (deterrents) with you
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