ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 400 people die Dengue fever in the past year in 32 of Indonesia’s 38 provinces

Thursday, 11 March 2004

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Rome (Fides Service) - It is the rains season and Indonesia is suffering from an epidemic of Dengue fever, or beak bone fever, which can be mortal. The fever is raging in 32 of Indonesia’s 38 provinces but the highest number of people infected in in the capital Jakarta and other large cities in the Island of Java the most densely populated. So far 408 people have died and 29,643 people have been infected by the fever caused by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito against which there is no vaccination. (AP) (11/3/2004 Agenzia Fides; Righe: 12; Parole: 113)