Taipei Times
Date: Aug 19, 2019
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday confirmed this year’s first case of indigenous dengue
A Centers for Disease Control employee conducts an inspection in Taipei yesterday after this year’s first case of indigenous dengue fever was confirmed.
Photo: CNA
A man in his 30s who lives in Daan District’s (大安) Jianan Borough (建安) developed a fever and muscle pain on Thursday, and sought medical treatment that day, it said.
Medical staff suspected dengue fever when he made a second visit to a doctor on Friday, so he was tested and his case was reported to the agency, it said.
The test came back positive, it said, adding that the man is resting at home.
He has not been abroad recently, and lives and works in Daan, but he had visited other cities and counties during the potential infection period, so genome sequencing of the dengue virus in his blood would be conducted to try to determine the source of infection, CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said. [FULL STORY]
