Dengue fever patients are hospitalized. (Shutterstock)
Dengue fever (DBD) is a disease that often appears during the transition of the season like now.
SuaraMalang.id – Dengue fever (DBD) is a disease that often appears during the transition of the season like now.
The disease carried by the aedes aegypti mosquito often haunts and becomes a specter, especially in the early times of rain.
No exception in Banyuwangi East Java. The Banyuwangi health office also warned the public to be careful. Moreover, it has rained several times in the area.
The Head of Control and Eradication of Infectious Diseases (P2PM) of the Banyuwangi Health Office, Sudarto Setyo, explained that to prevent the threat of these diseases, the community must maintain a clean environment.
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“By cleaning puddles of water that can produce Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae, which cause disease” dengue fever,” he said, as quoted from suarajatimpost.com, Suara.com media network. Thursday (4/10/2021).
Sudarto said that standing water on the ground would be a breeding ground for the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
“That is an indicator, usually if it rains sporadically it doesn’t continue like now. Hot rain, hot rain, will have an impact on the development of dengue disease,” he said.
In controlling this disease, the Banyuwangi Health Office has prepared a strategy. One of them is by promoting the PSN Snapping (Concurrent Movement for the Eradication of Mosquito Nests).
Gertak PSN activities are usually routinely carried out every Friday by residents together with village officials and larva monitoring cadres.
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“Including schools and Islamic boarding schools. The movement to eradicate mosquito nests must continue to be carried out, so that the effects of the rain that are starting to come on the development of the disease can be controlled,” said Sudarto.
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