Massive operation against dengue

Massive operation against dengue

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration will launch a massive
anti-dengue fever operation on April 26 in a bid to fight the
disease which this year has killed 43 people and hospitalized
3,993 as of yesterday.

City Health Agency spokeswoman Maryani said the operation
would include the scrubbing of household water tanks, buckets,
pets' drinking bowls, vases and water reservoirs and the burial
of used cans.

"The operation, which will involve the participation of all
residents, will be done simultaneously in the city's five
mayoralties," she said.

Maryani said the operation was intended mainly to stop the
lifecycle of aedes aegypty mosquitoes, which spread the virus.
The mosquitoes usually live and breed in clean water found in
tanks and buckets or rainwater trapped in banana bunches, she
said.

Maryani said that East Jakarta was the most heavily affected
area with the total number of fatalities and sufferers reaching
11 and 1,069 respectively since January.

In North Jakarta, 905 people have been taken to hospitals for
medical treatment and three had reportedly died, she said.

Seven-hundred-and-thirty-five people have been hospitalized in
South Jakarta, 622 in West Jakarta and 661 in Central Jakarta.
The death tolls from the outbreak are nine in both South and West
Jakarta and 11 in Central Jakarta. (cst/ind)