EARLY INCIDENT :A young woman in Kaohsiung was likely infected by a man living in the same borough who contracted the disease in Thailand, the CDC said
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 05, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan, Ou Su-mei and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday confirmed the first case of indigenous
The entrance to the Centers for Disease Control in Taipei is pictured on Dec. 11 last year.
Photo: Lin Hui-chin, Taipei Times
dengue fever in the nation — a young woman in Kaohsiung who was likely infected by a person who contracted the disease in Thailand.
The 20-something woman visited a doctor on Friday after developing symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, and tested positive for the dengue virus, the CDC said in a press release.
She is now in hospital under quarantine, and her house in Singbang Borough (興邦) in the city’s Cianjhen District (前鎮) has been disinfected, it said.
As the woman had not gone abroad recently and people she has had frequent contact with have not exhibited similar symptoms, the CDC said she was likely infected by a man living 143m away in the same borough. [FULL STORY]
