What Is the Dengue Fever Vaccine?

Taiwan's "Outbreak Epidemic Command Center" was announced in Taipei on September 23, 2015. Since the beginning of summer, 42 deaths have been determined to be related to dengue infection.

Dengue fever outbreak in 2015

CHP reminds citizens that there is no infection prevention

Dengue fever outbreak in Taiwan

On September 5, 2015, the Taiwan authorities' "Department of Disease Control" announced the latest dengue fever report. From the summer of May 1 to September 3, 2015, a total of 4,667 cases of dengue fever were confirmed, and 290 cases were newly added in Tainan on a single day. The cumulative number of infections has reached 4,000, reaching 4,115; if the epidemic cannot be controlled by the end of September, the infection will continue until November, and the number of people infected in Taiwan may exceed 30,000. ^[5]

The Taiwan Dengue Fever Epidemic Command Center said on September 28, 2015 that there were 17,425 cases of local dengue fever since the beginning of summer in 2012, an increase of 313 cases from September 27. Tainan City broke through the 15,000 cases, reaching 15,055 cases, and there were 4 new suspected dengue deaths in Taiwan ^[2] .

On October 14, 2015, the total number of deaths from dengue fever in Taiwan was 106 (90 in Tainan City, 14 in Kaohsiung City, and 2 in Pingtung County). The median age of death was 77. Chronic patients and the elderly were High-risk group.

19 cases of "suspected" deaths of dengue fever have been completed this week, of which 17 were determined to be dengue fever, including 10 males and 7 females, including 12 in Tainan City and 5 in Kaohsiung City, aged 54 to 93 between.

There are also 28 suspected deaths pending trial in Taiwan (24 in Tainan City and 4 in Kaohsiung City), and 47 people are being treated in intensive care unit, but 21,260 confirmed patients have recovered, and the recovery rate is 89.2%.

According to statistics from the Taiwan Epidemic Epidemic Command Center, there have been 23,621 local cases of dengue fever, including 19,621 cases in Tainan City, 3,796 cases in Kaohsiung City, and 95 cases in Pingtung County. The remaining counties and cities have all moved in to spread outbreaks. A total of 365 local dengue cases were added yesterday. ^[1]