Dong Nai records significant drop in malaria cases

04:03, 16/03/2010

(ĐN)- The Dong Nai Preventive Medicine Centre announced that the province expects a further 5 per cent drop in malaria cases in 2010 and there will be no deaths caused by malaria.

(ĐN)- The Dong Nai Preventive Medicine Centre announced that the province expects a further 5 per cent drop in malaria cases in 2010 and there will be no deaths caused by malaria. In 2009, a total of 464 malaria cases were reported in Dong Nai, equating to 0.19 per 1000 residents. The figure represented a 19 per cent year-on-year decline on the figure that was recorded in 2008. Four people, out of 464 reported malignant malaria cases, but no fatal case of this disease was recorded last year.

Reported by N.P