The Study for Effective Control of Dengue Outbreak in Tainan, 2015

• Main Authors: Chueh-Hui Yeh, 葉雀惠
• Other Authors: Chao-Yen Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72me3b

博士 === 義守大學 === 資訊工程學系 === 105 === 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, Aedes albopictus and Aedesa Egypti 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. 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.especially in Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung counties in southern Taiwan. In 2014, 14,999 cases of Dengue Fever were diagnosed in Kaohsiung City, 19,769 cases were diagnosed in 2015. 155 cases of dengue fever were diagnosed in Tainan in 2014. Dengue fever outbreak in 2015, diagnosed 22,760 cases, a record high, not only caused a major threat to urban health, but also hit the sightseeing and the economy! 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 reversedthe 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.