The Study of Dengue Fever Epidemic Prevention Based on Tainan City in 2015

Abstract

Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by dengue virus, and it is the world fastest-spread Vector-borne disease, whose incidence has increased 30 times in the past 50 years, and has overspread to new areas. Dengue fever is a kind of environmental disease, social disease, and its vector, Aedesalbopictus and AedesaEgypti both had record that causing epidemics. However, there is still lack of efficient vaccine and therapy so far. Thus, the integral prevention and treatment is the main mean. (WHO, 2004) In recent years, Dengue fever has become an important public health problem not only in Taiwan but also in international. Taiwan is often troubled by Dengue fever in summer. In 2015, the first native case occurred in Tainan in May, after that, it caused the epidemic of Dengue fever become very serious which the number of confirmed cases is 22752 and the death is 112. Dengue fever turned out to become a threat to residents’ health, however, in 2015, Tainan city has started promoting various kinds of professional knowledge and scientific epidemic prevention measures during the Dengue fever epidemic period. Through the cross-departmental cooperation, information disclosure, scientific epidemic prevention strategies by the epidemic command center, we had successfully reversed the epidemic, and effectively control the spread of Dengue fever, which broke the experience that could only stop the epidemic with the cold weather. The aim of this study is to explore the successful experience of Dengue fever prevention and controlling, which can be used as reference for other cities in the future.