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08:06, July 05, 2007 |
Thousands of Cambodian students on Wednesday marched in Phnom Penh to raise the awareness of dengue fever.
This march is the beginning of the campaign of anti-dengue fever in Cambodia, which aims to raise the awareness of this disease among common people and teach them how to prevent it, a press release said, adding that people should clean the places around their houses and do not allow mosquitoes to lay their eggs.
The march was organized by the anti-dengue fever authority of Cambodian Ministry of Health in cooperation with insecticide companies.
Although this year's rainy season just began, 84 have died due to the mosquito-borne disease, more than half of last year's totalnumber of 156, Ngan Chantha, deputy director of the National Malaria Center of the Health Ministry, said last month.
Dengue fever, a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly hits tropical and sub-tropical regions. The symptoms include high fever, nausea, rashes, backache and headaches.
The hemorrhagic variant, which causes severe internal bleeding as blood vessels collapse, is often fatal.
Source: Xinhua
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