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China - Beijing - Inspection and Quarantine Department detected seven positive dengue cases from Angola flight

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Beijing Department found seven cases of dengue cases brought by the Angola flights

2013-10-03 08:36:53 | Source: Beijing News |
  
Beijing News News (Reporter Liao Ailing)

Beijing Exit Inspection and Quarantine yesterday informed, in a flight from Angola simultaneously detected seven cases of dengue positive cases, are China 's local workers returned. In this regard, AQSIQ issued a National Day holidays immigration dengue risk warning, to Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Latin America and other countries and regions tourism, should guard against mosquito bites.
  
Seven passengers were mosquito bites
  
Beijing Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, this is from the September 28 flights from Angola DT690 detected seven cases with recent cases of dengue, of which four passengers still can not rule out completely cured, has been sent to Ditan Hospital investigation, three others in doing propaganda dengue disease clinic card issued after release.
  
This 7 visitors as Chinese nationals, were returning workers in Angola, have Mosquitoes bite at a local hospital diagnosed as dengue fever. Currently live body temperature was normal, no abnormal physical examination.
  
Dengue fever is an acute infectious disease caused by dengue virus, transmitted by mosquito bites in the crowd spread widely distributed in tropical and subtropical climates worldwide.
  
Angola belongs to tropical diseases endemic areas, so flights from that country has been identified as key monitoring flights. Field quarantine officers will increase inspections of passengers carried by one health certificate, vaccination certificate examination, asking health, expand the field epidemiological investigation, medical examination and rapid detection.
  
There is no specific treatment for
  
Beijing Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau reminded outbound travelers before the best understanding of local disease epidemic situation in the local International Health Care Center for health counseling, and receive necessary vaccinations. If traveling with fever, muscle and joint pain and other physical discomfort, returning immigration and quarantine departments should take the initiative to declare a doctor immediately, indicating that the recent travel history, history of mosquito bites, so that timely diagnosis and treatment.
  
Is the National Day holiday passenger peak, AQSIQ issued a risk warning yesterday, pointing out that Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Central and South America countries and regions, a significant increase in dengue epidemic, China's Yunnan, Guangdong and other places have also appeared more dengue local outbreaks.
  
Against dengue, there is no specific treatment, there is no effective vaccine, the most effective way to prevent dengue fever is to avoid mosquito bites, good personal mosquito.
  
Prompt
  
What is the performance of dengue fever?
  
Patients usually in 3-14 days after the onset of mosquito bites, manifested as sudden high fever, body temperature can reach above 39 ℃, severe headache, orbital pain, joint and muscle pain, rash, bleeding tendency, swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.
  
How to prevent dengue fever?
  
Travel to dengue endemic areas should wear long-sleeved clothes and trousers, and coated on exposed skin and clothing mosquito repellent medicines, shelter and the surrounding environment should take mosquito repellent, mosquito control measures, such as mosquito nets or room unit mosquito nets, clear water surrounding environment such as Aedes breeding sites and so on.

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