"The AP, quoting an official from the Vietnamese Health Ministry's Department of Hygiene and Epidemics, has reported 39 fatalities from dengue fever thus far this year. The total number of cases is more than 14,000. The three top provinces are Ain Giang (over 3,000), Kien Gian (1,700) and Ben Tre (1,200), all of which are in the Mekong Delta.
The statistics for 1997 are 108 000 cases and more than 200 deaths, according to the same official."-- Dorothy Preslar <dpreslar@fas.org> VIA ProMED-mail <promed@usa.healthnet.org>.