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Travel Health News Digest (5 November 2006)
As of 29 October, a total of 483 indigenous case of Dengue Fever have been confirmed in Taiwan. Among which, 321 cases were reported in Kaohsiung City, 149 cases in Kaohsiung County, 9 cases in Pingtung County, 2 cases in Tainan, 1 case each in Taipei County and Keelung City.
Malaysia: Hong Kong traveller contracted Dengue Fever
The Hong Kong Department of Health confirmed an imported case of Dengue Fever. The patient was a 34-year-old woman. She developed symptoms of fever, headache, eye and muscle pain on 25 October and had skin rash later. She had travelled to Malaysia from 10 to 24 October. Her family members did not show any symptom of the disease.
There have been a total of 28 Dengue Fever cases so far this year. All of them are classified as imported cases.
A Cholera outbreak has been reported in Cameroon's Far North Province, which affected more than 540 and killed 28 people. Health authorities blamed the outbreak on living conditions and lack of clean drinking water.
(Source: ProMED-mail 3 November 2006)
In Uganda, Cholera has spread in Rakai district. Twenty people have been hospitalised and 6 people died.
A Cholera outbreak has killed 4 children in northern Nigeria's Kaduna State, and 25 other people have been hospitalised in the past few days.
The Ministry of Health in Kenya has confirmed an outbreak of Cholera in Mombasa. A total of 14 cases with one death have been reported.
Nepal: Undiagnosed death, human
In Nepal, nearly 500 people have been infected with an unknown disease that has spread in 4 Village Development Committees (Phattehpur, Gangapur, Narainapur and Chauferi) of midwestern Banke district in the past 2 weeks. Thirty-six deaths have been reported so far and most of the dead were children and the aged. The patients had symptoms of fever, body ache, shivering and sudden unconsciousness. A medical team was sent to the affected area and found 15 of the patients were infected with Malaria.