JAKARTA, Mar 9 (NNN-ANTARA) – A total of 94 people had died of dengue fever, since the beginning of this year, across Indonesia, the Health Ministry said, as quoted by local media here Sunday.
The ministry’s Director of Prevention and Control of Vector-borne Disease, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said, the casualties were part of 14,716 cases.
East Nusa Tenggara province posed the biggest number of death toll in the country this year, with figures of 29, followed by West Java province and East Java province, 15 and 11 people respectively, the director disclosed.
On the number of cases, she said, the biggest number of people infected by the virus is also found in East Nusa Tenggara province, with a total case of 1,300, along the year up to date, local media reported on Sunday.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by one of four closely related dengue viruses. The disease is transmitted by the bite of an aedes mosquito, particularly an aedes aegypti mosquito, infected with dengue.
Dengue infection is the fastest spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. Infections most frequently occurred in urban environment.– NNN-ANTARA
