NewsWhore
04-18-2007, 02:20 PM
In an effort to reduce the dengue fever death toll by a significant percentage, the ministries of Health and Education have joined forces in a nationwide campaign against the disease. The National School Campaign Against Dengue involves three million school age children and will continue for two weeks. The campaign will emphasize the importance of prevention, and schoolchildren will try and teach people how to use chlorine to clean the insides of their water tanks at least twice a week. The mobilization of the school kids began with documentaries showing how the mosquito vector transmits the disease. All the major figures in the ministries attended the campaign launch. The authorities are starting a fumigation program tomorrow. All these efforts are designed to reduce the 2006 figures of 50 deaths and over 6,000 cases of dengue fever, generally focused in the low-lying barrios of Santo Domingo and other cities. An article in Hoy newspaper reveals that 80% of the dengue victims treated at the Robert Reid Children's Hospital were children from the metropolitan area.
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