Asia’s “twindemic”: dengue fever cases rocket as covid-19 rages on

For Khoa Tran Dang, July was a harrowing month. The government run hospital where he works was inundated with over 400 dengue fever patients—whose symptoms include septic shock, high fever, muscle pain, and bleeding gums—every day.“It’s a challenge for us to deal with the rush,” says Tran, a lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, “Sometimes, we have to put extra beds in rooms and hallways to accommodate the patients.”As of the first week of August 2022, Vietnam had already far exceeded the total number of dengue cases and deaths recorded the year before: 145 536 cases and 53 deaths compared with 70 944 and 22 in the whole of 2021.1Nationally, about 9000 people were admitted to hospital in the last week of June compared with fewer than 2000 at the same point last year, while there are triple the number of deaths.The surge…
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