24 deaths attributed to dengue

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Public Health officials have registered 2,265 cases of dengue throughout the country so far this year, and the Ministry is on the alert. According to the Epidemiology Directorate, 24 people have already died of the disease in 2006, six more than the total for 2005. Clave Digital reports that the information was disclosed by Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez following a meeting with several mayors from the National District and Santo Domingo Province, with whom he agreed to carry out joint actions to control the propagation of the dengue-transmitting mosquito. Ninety-eight of the 2,265 cases have been hemorrhagic dengue. The deaths have been attributed to persons not recognizing the disease, and instead treating it as a normal cold.

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