Two dengue fever cases were confirmed by Beijing Municipal
Health Bureau on Friday.? These are first cases of the disease
in the capital for two years. According to the bureau the two
patients have been discharged from Beijing Friendship
Hospital.?
One of the patients was a 29-year-old man from southwest China's
Chongqing Municipality. He was diagnosed with
the disease on September 16 after returning from the Philippines.
The other was from north China's Shanxi Province, who was confirmed to have the
illness on September 13, after returning from India. Both of them
had returned to their hometowns, the bureau said.
Dengue fever was a tropical disease spread mainly by mosquitoes,
said Gan Shaobo, a doctor with the hospital's tropical medicine
institute, warning that Chinese tourists to Southeast Asia and
Latin America should be aware of the risks.
South China's Guangdong Province had 465 dengue fever cases
this summer but no deaths have been reported.
(Xinhua News Agency September 30, 2006)