Januari Found 33 Cases Of Dengue Fever In Lebak, Pemdahitkan Masyarakat Berantas Sarang Mosquito

Head of the Lebak District Health Office Triatno Supiyono. (ANTARA)

LEBAK - In January 2023, the Government of Lebak Regency, Banten recorded 33 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (BDB) and did not cause death.

The Health Office of Lebak Regency in Banten Province asked the community to intensify efforts to eradicate mosquito nests (PSN) to prevent transmission of dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue fever.

Head of the Lebak District Health Office Triatno Supiyono in Lebak, Friday, said that eradicating mosquito nests with 3M Plus is an effective way to break the chain of transmission of dengue fever.

3M activities include draining/cleaning water reservoirs, closing water reservoirs, and reusing and recycling used goods.

Plus it includes efforts such as using anti-magnetic drugs, attaching kasal wires to windows and ventilation, cleaning the environment, sprinkling larvae in water reservoirs, raising mosquito larvae, and planting mosquito dredges.

"These efforts can prevent the breeding of mosquito intermediary transmission of dengue virus, the cause of dengue hemorrhagic fever," Triatno told ANTARA, Friday, January 27.

Triatno said that the Health Office since early January 2023 recorded 33 cases of dengue transmission in the Lebak Regency area, but none of the cases resulted in death.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Rangkasbitung Health Center, Yangyang Citra Gumelar, said that during that period there were 10 dengue cases in his working area.

In order to suppress dengue transmission, he said, the puskesmas in collaboration with the sub-district government moved residents to carry out the PSN movement and work together to clean up the environment around their homes.