Three residents of Krasnoyarsk fell ill with dengue fever after a holiday in Thailand

Three residents of Krasnoyarsk contracted dengue fever while on vacation in Thailand. This was announced in his telegram channel by the head of the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor Dmitry Goryaev.

“Among the sick is a child who is one year old,” he added.

A total of five cases of dengue have been reported in the region since the beginning of the year. Goryaev reported about the first two in early February, the sick also returned from Thailand.

The main carriers of dengue fever are mosquitoes. There is no vaccine against the disease, treatment is symptomatic. Symptoms are high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, nausea, vomiting, swollen lymph nodes or rash.

The spread of dengue fever in Southeast Asia was known as early as 2019. Then Rospotrebnadzor recommended that tourists in these countries comply with the following requirements:

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