Recently, the weather has been hot and there are often thunderstorms in the afternoon, which are prone to stagnant water containers and breeding of vector mosquitoes. Taoyuan City confirmed the first imported case of dengue fever on June 20. Organized a press conference on dengue health education publicity on “All people eliminate dengue and dengue is not rampant”. The press conference emphasized the importance of “patrol, pour, clear, and brush”. Mayor Zheng Wencan led the city government team and invited community, school and business representatives To jointly prevent and control dengue fever, implement the prevention and control work of “inspecting, pouring, clearing, and brushing” with the concept of the whole people. Let’s work together to eliminate dengue and prevent the dengue virus from running rampant.
Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan led the city government team and invited community, school and business representatives to jointly prevent and control dengue fever.Photo: Provided by the Department of Health
Zheng Wencan said that the epidemic period of dengue fever has come. Taoyuan City is the capital of the country, and the threat of dengue fever from overseas is far higher than that of other counties and cities; Taoyuan City has established a number of epidemic prevention hotels and centralized quarantine stations in line with the central home quarantine policy. The days of home quarantine are also gradually shortened. Immediately after the quarantine is completed, the immigrants will go to live in the community, which will increase the time of latent dengue infection in Taoyuan City and increase the related risks.
Director of Health Wang Wenyan explained that dengue fever is an environmental infectious disease, and controlling the breeding of vectors and mosquitoes is the focus of dengue fever prevention and control. The most effective method is to maintain environmental hygiene and remove breeding sources; by building community consensus, we will jointly participate in the prevention and control of dengue fever by means of general mobilization of the whole people. Work. In addition, the staff of health centers and environmental volunteers (volunteers) in the 13 districts of Taoyuan City also regularly strengthen the removal of vector mosquito breeding sources in key environments such as epidemic prevention hotels, campuses, vegetable gardens, centralized quarantine places, and densely populated places. We will strengthen the re-examination in the areas where the breeding sources of vector mosquitoes are found, and jointly protect the health of the public.
Lv Lide, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that in order to use scientific data to determine the risk of dengue fever and prevent the epidemic, the Environmental Protection Agency has been cooperating with the National Institutes of Health since 109. At the beginning, the dengue fever outbreak occurred in areas such as Taoyuan. , Guishan, Luzhu and other places set up egg traps to monitor the vector mosquito index, and continued to promote in 110 and 111, and continued to monitor nearly 300 li in various districts of the city. If a high-risk area is found, the breeding source removal or emergency chemical spraying control measures will be initiated to reduce the risk of dengue fever outbreaks. At the same time, environmental protection volunteers from various localities also actively cooperated. According to statistics, from January to May this year, about 86,000 environmental protection volunteers have been mobilized to remove about 13,000 stagnant water containers and completely eliminate the breeding source of vector mosquitoes.
The nationwide eradication of children is carried out to prevent dengue fever.Photo: Provided by the Department of Health
The Health Bureau also reminds the public to take anti-mosquito measures when going out, such as wearing light-colored long-sleeved underwear, or spraying mosquito repellents approved by government agencies on bare skin to avoid mosquito bites; within 14 days of returning from abroad, If you have suspected symptoms such as fever, headache, posterior eye socket pain, joint and muscle pain, and rash, please seek medical attention as soon as possible and inform TOCC. It takes you and I to work together to keep dengue fever out of the country.