Vietnam has, so far this year, detected nearly 10,000 cases of dengue fever infections, including six fatalities, posting respective year-on-year rises of 35.4 percent and 100 percent, local newspaper Pioneer reported Thursday.

Up to 93 percent of the cases were reported in southern region, especially in Ho Chi Minh City, and provinces of Dong Thap and Soc Trang, where weather conditions and local people's habit of storing water in containers at their houses favor the development of mosquitoes -- the disease's transmitter, the paper quoted sources from the Health Ministry as reporting.

To cut the number of new infections, the ministry is asking localities nationwide to keep on cleansing environments around their accommodations, including keeping water containers clean and killing mosquitoes and their larvae.

Source: Xinhua