The Taipei City Department of Health yesterday reported an imported case of dengue fever, which involved a Malaysian teenager who traveled to Taiwan with his family last week.
The 16-year-old tested positive for dengue fever after seeking medical attention at a local hospital on Saturday, the department said.
The patient told his doctor that he was diagnosed with dengue fever in Malaysia on Friday, but because his condition improved without experiencing a fever, he decided to travel to Taiwan as planned, the department said, adding that the tourist has left Taiwan.
As of yesterday, 79 indigenous cases of dengue fever and 64 imported cases have been recorded in Taipei, the department said.
In related news, a two-day international conference on dengue fever prevention and control sponsored by Taiwan and the US opened yesterday in Tainan, the hardest-hit region in the outbreak of the disease this year.
Nineteen experts from 10 other nations where dengue fever poses a threat — Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, India and Papua New Guinea — joined the forum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The conference is to move to Taipei today for expert discussion.
It is the second public health meeting under the Taiwan-US Global Cooperation and Training Framework, launched in June.
The first one, held in August by Taiwan and US public health agencies, involved an “International Training Course on Molecular Diagnosis for MERS-CoV.”
More than 40,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported in Taiwan since May, when the outbreak began. Of those, 22,691 had been reported in Tainan as of Sunday.
Tainan reported two additional new cases on Sunday, indicating that the epidemic there has abated.
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