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Liputan6.com, Binjai: The number of patients of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is increasing in Binjai, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra. Monitoring SCTV, Saturday (7 / 3), a number of hospitals in Binjai average almost handle three to five cases of DHF per day. And most of the victims attacked the children ages 3 to 9 years. Among them there are also adult patients.

At a hospital in Binjai for example, handled nine cases of DHF six-day period. One of them died because of the time taken to the hospital, patients in severe condition.

Increasing the percentage of DHF in Binjai due to frequent rains and a lack of public awareness of environmental monitoring. And how fumigation or fogging is not the main way to prevent dengue.

Malignancy mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits dengue virus to spread in some areas. Not least in Tarakan, East Kalimantan. Dozens of people who dominated the children undergoing intensive treatment in a special ward boy Regional General Hospital Tarakan [read: Dengue outbreak in Tarakan]. (AIS)