SOME 104 AFFECTED BY DENGUE FEVER IN LEBAK

Lebak, Banten Province, Feb. 23 (ANTARA) - Some 104 people have been admitted to Misi Hospital and Dr Adjidarmo Rangkasbitung General Hospital, in Lebak, with symptoms of Dengue Fever since January 2009.

Misi Hospital had treated 90 people since January, an increase from 60 in the same period last year, Ignatius Darya, head of the hospital's medical records unit, said here on Monday.
The oubreak, however, did not claim any life as all of the patients survived, he said.
Misi Hospital had prepared facilities and medical equipment to anticipate more dengue fever outbreaks in the current rainy season, he said.
Meanwhile, 14 people had been admitted at Dr. Adjidarmo Rangkasbitung Hospital for the disease since January 2009, according to Budi, the hospital's spokesman.
"The health conditions of all of the patients being treated here have improved, and some of them have returned home," he said.
In West Java Province, dengue fever has killed 16 people since early this month, prompting the local government to announce a 'dengue alert month'.
In Mamuju, West Sulawesi Province, a dengue fever outbreak killed one person and infected 26 others.
Dengue is a mosquito-borne infection that causes a severe flu-like illness, and sometimes a potentially lethal complication called dengue hemorrhagic fever.