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Due to global warming, mosquitoes are becoming more prevalent, and dengue fever cases are rapidly increasing around the world.
It has increased eight-fold since 2000, and has also increased significantly in the United States and Europe.
Reporter Kim Seon-hee reports.
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At a general hospital in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, all the people standing in a long line were dengue fever patients.
This year, the number of infected patients reached 200,000 and the number of deaths exceeded 1,000, the highest ever.
Last year, 281 people died, a record high, and this year’s death toll is more than three times that of last year.
[가비럴 바샤르 / 뎅기열 전문가 : 2000년부터 2018년까지 뎅기열은 다카시에서만 발생했어요. 그런데 2019년부터 다른 도시로 확산하고 있습니다.]
Dengue fever, which is mainly transmitted by mosquitoes, causes symptoms such as high fever, headache, muscle pain, and leukopenia.
It usually gets better after about a week, but it can be fatal in less than 1% of people.
Last month, a Korean who visited Bangladesh contracted dengue fever and died while being hospitalized.
The problem is that the dengue virus is spreading rapidly around the world due to global warming.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had increased eight-fold since 2000 until last year.
[라만 벨라유단 / WHO 글로벌 책임자 : 세계 인구의 약 절반이 뎅기열의 위험에 처해 있고 약 129개국에 영향을 미치고 있습니다. 우리는 매년 약 1억~4억 건의 사례가 보고되는 것으로 추정합니다.]
It is also rapidly increasing in the United States and Europe, and a state of emergency has been declared in most regions in Peru.
[와일더 파르반 / 시위대 (지난 6월) : 뎅기열 확산에 제대로 대처 못한 보건부 장관 물러나야 합니다. 사임할 때까지 요구할 겁니다.]
There is no vaccine or treatment for dengue fever, so the most important thing is to avoid mosquito bites, such as by wearing long clothes or spraying repellent.
Additionally, the fatality rate in case of reinfection increases rapidly, so you should be more careful if you frequently visit epidemic areas.
This is YTN Kim Seon-hee.
Video editing: Lee Young-hoon
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2023-10-03 13:47:00
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