CHINA / Regional
Four imported malaria cases found in south China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-20 09:31
GUANGZHOU -- Four people in South China's Guangdong Province who have
recently returned from south Asia have contracted malaria, said an
official with the provincial Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (IQB).
The four workers, who all belong to an enterprise in Shunde City whose
name the official declined to reveal, are in hospital. One of them is in
critical condition.
They worked in south Asia in April and May and, since getting home in
September, have been suffering from fever, diarrhea, skin rashes and
dizziness.
All of them were bitten by mosquitoes.
Malaria is one of the world's most common diseases, caused by a parasite
that is transmitted to humans by a female mosquito's bite. Malaria
symptoms include fever, shivering, pain in the joints, headache, repeated
vomiting, generalized convulsions and coma. If not treated, the most
serious types of malaria can prove fatal in as little as two days.
Malaria parasites weaken the immune system, making people more vulnerable
to other infectious, life-threatening diseases.
The workers are quarantined and the IQB has launched a campaign to
exterminate mosquitoes in the province.
Guangdong has also reported 492 dengue cases, with no deaths.
Infectious diseases accounted for 59 percent of the 11,109 public health
emergencies in September, according to an earlier report from the State
Health Ministry.
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