In the weekly update, the regional health authorities reported the following on 17 October 2012:
Maintain strong emphasis on prevention form being bitten by Mosquito. Use long sleeves, light coloured clothes, trousers, socks and closed shoes at the mosquito´s most active period (sunrise and sunset) and repellents containing DEET, as well as reducing and eliminating breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the Dengue fever.
Source: Comunicado IASAÚDE, IP-RAM - 17-10-2012 "Instituto de Administração da Saúde e Assuntos Sociais, IP-RAM"
- total probable number of cases 262
- total cumulated cases confirmed 37
- number of patients currently hospitalized 6
- total cumulated cases hospitalised 30
Maintain strong emphasis on prevention form being bitten by Mosquito. Use long sleeves, light coloured clothes, trousers, socks and closed shoes at the mosquito´s most active period (sunrise and sunset) and repellents containing DEET, as well as reducing and eliminating breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the Dengue fever.
Source: Comunicado IASAÚDE, IP-RAM - 17-10-2012 "Instituto de Administração da Saúde e Assuntos Sociais, IP-RAM"
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