Tainan City reports 1st local transmission of dengue of the year
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#1813J)
After reporting a record 22,760 indigenous dengue fever cases and 112 deaths in 2015, Tainan City health officials (computer translated) are reporting the first case of the year in a 63-year-old man from Annan District. This is two months earlier than the first case was reported in 2015, prompting Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te to declare that dengue season ["]