Bali’s Provincial Health Office provided some welcome news that the island’s number of dengue fever cases have declined significantly from January to early February 2016.
The health office’s head, Ketut Suarjaya, says that there were 1,000 reported cases of the mosquito-borne virus in January 2015, while there were only 473 cases so far this year during the same period. Perhaps it has something to do with such a delayed rainy season and therefore a lack of puddles and still water for mosquitoes to vigorously breed in.
Suarjaya credits the decline in dengue to increased socialization by the Department of Health and increased fogging in Denpasar.
However, deaths this year are ever so slightly up.
“Last year, there was one death. And now there are three. In Jembrana, Gianyar, and Denpasar, each region had one patient who died,” Suarjaya told Tribun Bali on Wednesday.
