Macau has recorded this year’s seventh imported case of dengue fever, the Health Bureau (SSM) has announced.
According to an SSM statement on Friday, the patient is a 32-year-old local woman who lives in a flat in Nam Ngon Garden in Nape. She works at a Cotai casino.
The woman visited Kuala Lumpur with her friends between October 16 and 21. After returning to Macau, the statement said, the woman came down with a fever, chills and headache on October 27, before developing bleeding gums and nosebleeds two days later.
According to the statement, the woman developed a rash and blood spots on her legs on Tuesday last week, because of which she then sought treatment at her workplace’s clinic.
As her symptoms persisted, the statement said, she sought treatment at the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre on Thursday last week where she had her sample collected for a test. She was diagnosed with Grade II dengue fever by the Health Bureau’s Public Health Laboratory the next day, the statement said.
The woman, who had been hospitalised, was in a stable condition at the time of Friday’s statement.
The Health Bureau has classified the woman’s case as an imported case of dengue fever after considering her travel history and the time of the onset of her symptoms, as well as its laboratory test results.
Dengue viruses are spread to humans through the bites of infected Aedes species mosquitoes.
