After two people in her neighborhood died from dengue fever, 35-year-old Ngoc took her entire family for vaccination and cleaned her home to reduce mosquito breeding grounds.
In addition to high fever, severe headache, and skin hemorrhages, parents should note signs such as abdominal pain, nausea, lethargy, and unusual bleeding, to take children to the hospital promptly.
Late at night, in a cattle shed pungent with manure and dampness, medical entomologists sit motionless for hours, baring their arms as "bait" for mosquitoes.
Cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease, dengue fever, and Covid-19 have simultaneously increased two to fourfold in many localities, prompting health authorities to recommend preventing overlapping epidemics.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease and dengue fever cases are sharply increasing across many localities, with health officials warning of further escalation in infections and severe cases if communities do not take decisive preventive action.
