Sukadana: A total of 11 residents of East Lampung Regency (Lamtim) are recorded to be suffering Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) during the first week of January 2022.
The Head of the Lamtim District Health Service (Dinkes), Nanang Salman, explained that the increase in cases could continue to occur during the rainy season. Moreover, he said, February 2022 is predicted to be the peak of the rainy season.
“Residents are asked to be vigilant and careful. At the peak of the rainy season, conditions with quite humid weather and lots of puddles of water must be anticipated by residents,” he said, Thursday, January 6, 2022.
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Such weather and environmental conditions, he said, really support the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. This condition is usually accompanied by an increase in the number of dengue cases.
“A total of 126 residents were attacked by dengue during 2021,” he said.
From that time span, the worst attack rate occurred in November 2021 as many as 25 people and December 2021 as many as 31 people.
“Then it will continue again in 2022. In the first week of January 2022, 11 people were recorded,” he said.
Those who were attacked by dengue this time were residents of Purbolinggo sub-district, eight people, Pasir Sakti 2 people, and one person from Sekampung.
“Residents must actively carry out mosquito nest eradication (PSN) through 3M plus, namely, draining places that often become water reservoirs such as bathtubs, jugs, water towers, drums and other water reservoirs, then tightly closing water reservoirs such as tubs. bathing or drums, and burying used items in the ground so as not to make the environment more dirty and can potentially become a mosquito breeding ground,” he explained.
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