Via The Phnom Penh Post :
" Authorities are warning the public to take extra precautions against dengue fever as the Kingdom heads into the rainy season – when the risk of contracting the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease is at its highest.
Ngan Chantha, director of the National Anti-Dengue Programme at the Ministry of Health, said officials launched a campaign on Tuesday to raise public awareness of dengue fever.
“We want to remind people throughout the country to prevent dengue fever, even though the number of cases this year has not been high,” he said.
There have been 731 individual cases through May 17, marking a drop from the more than 1,000 cases recorded during the same period last year, Ngan Chantha said. Four deaths have been recorded this year.
However, the country records the vast majority of its yearly dengue cases and fatalities during the rainy months, when dengue-carrying mosquitoes have plenty of opportunity to breed in water."
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