Karanganyar (ANTARA News) - The outbreak of dengue fever in Karanganyar district, Central Java, has infected 74 people and killed one suffer since January this year, said Warsito of the local health service office here on Wednesday.
He said that a total of 400 people were infected with dengue in 2007, three of the patients died.
In Central Java, at least 37 people died of dengue fever last month. According to the record of the Central Java provincial administration, there were 2,347 cases of dengue fever in January 2008.
"But this figure shows a decrease compared with that of the same period last year when it stood at 2,518 cases with 62 fatalities," Hartanto, the head of the Central Java health service, said here over the weekend.
The dengue fever cases in Central Java were found among others in the districts of Jepara (548 cases), Kudus (212), Tegal (118), and Grobogan (104), he said. During the first two weeks of February 2008, at least 57 local people were infected with the dengue fever virus.
The total number of dengue sufferers in Central Java in 2007 was 20,361 including 327 fatalities. It increased two-folds from that of 2006 when the figure was recorded at 10,924 cases with 337 dead toll.
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