The Facts about Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF)

The Facts about Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF)

A. Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: A dangerous and contagious disease caused by virus that can emerge a disturbance on capillary blood vessel and blood coagulation system so that it causes a death.
Cause: It is caused by dengue virus, the family of Flaviviridae and genus of Flavivirus. Dengue virus has 4 serotypes, i.e. DEN-1.
Prevention: Extremely depend on control of its vector, i.e. Aedes Aegypti. The control of such mosquito can be distributed by using some methods: 1. Environmental (Control of mosquito’s nest and extermination of mosquito’s nest), 2. Biologic, 3. Chemical (Fogging, distribution of abate powder).

B. Prevention Effort: - DHF Prevention Program. Spraying of insecticide is held as soon as possible in order to limit the spread and transmission of DHF disease. – Extermination. The most important effort is to exterminate the infecting mosquito larva in its nest by doing “3M”, i.e. draining, covering, and burying.

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) disease is one of the problem of public health, and the rate of case tends to increase and it spreads more widely along with transportation advance by the development of inhabitant’s settlement (Dept. of Health, 1994).
In 1954 the first Extraordinary Case (EC) of DHF disease in Asia was found in Manila.
DHF is initially reported in Indonesia that is by the extraordinary case of DHF disease in Jakarta and Surabaya with 58 cases of DHF and 24 cases of death (CFR = 42.5%).
In 2001 the number of DHF death in Bantul regency was 4 DHF cases (CFR = 2.23%).
In 2003 it increased to be 8 people.

Since January-March 2004 the total case of DHF in whole provinces in Indonesia had attained 26.015. The number of death was 389 people. The highest case was found in the province of Jakarta, while the highest CFR was found in the province of Eastern Lesser Sundas (NTT).