Dengue cases in Negros Oriental have reached an alarming level with 296 cases recorded with two deaths, Dr. Felix Sy, assistant provincial health officer, said yesterday.

The fatalities came from the towns of Sibulan and Bacong.

Sy said the January to June 2012 record is 21.62 percent higher compared to 232 cases and zero death in the same period last year.

The most number of cases came from Dumaguete City with 162; Bayawan City, 36; Tanjay City, 17; Guihulngan, nine; and seven cases each from Dauin and Sibulan. The towns of Sta. Catalina and Bacong have six dengue cases each, while Bais City and Pamplona recorded five dengue admissions each.

Most of the victims of the mosquito-borne disease were aged 21 and above, with the female and male almost equally represented, he added.

Sy once again called for public cooperation and for every household to regularly clean the surroundings to eliminate, if not lessen, the spread of dengue-carrying mosquitoes.

The Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit also encouraged the barangays and schools to organize dengue brigades for surveillance and inform local health units on dengue cases.

The dengue virus is transmitted from one person to another by an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito, that thrives in clean and stagnant water.*RG

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