Foreign Ministry warns travellers of dengue fever outbreak in Vietnam

The Russian Foreign Ministry warns: Vietnam The incidence of dengue fever has increased.

The information is posted in the Twiiter account of the Situational Crisis Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (DSCC).

Dengue fever spreads in subtropical and tropical regions of the world, most active in Southeast Asia.

The disease is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito of the species Aedes aegypti - it is also a carrier of yellow fever. Symptoms of the disease appear 3-4 days after the bite: mild fever, high fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, rash throughout the body.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are most active after rain, at sunrise and sunset. Insects live in ponds with standing water. With the disease of the classic form of fever, the prognosis is favorable, with complications (mostly local residents are exposed to them), mortality can reach 50%.

Source: tonkosti