The Health Bureau (SSM) last night announced one more locally-infected dengue fever case.
According to an SSM statement, the patient is a 19-year-old local man who lives in a residential flat in Kam Long Building, where the previous four reported dengue fever patients live or work in the area.
The building is in Rua da Praia do Manduco.
The statement said the patient was in Jiangmen city, Guangdong province, from August 5 to Tuesday, adding the first dengue fever symptoms appeared on Wednesday last week. The patient consulted doctors in Jiangmen a number of times, the statement said, adding he returned to Macau to consult a doctor on Wednesday at the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre (CHCSJ).
