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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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October 6, 2008
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Surveillance
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Australian man ill with Dengue fever
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Centre for Health Protection

The Centre for Health Protection has confirmed the year's 33rd Dengue fever case involving a 37-year-old Australian man.

 

He travelled with his wife to India June 6 and arrived in Hong Kong September 25. He developed fever, headache, muscle and eye pain the next day and sought medical treatment from a private doctor September 29. He was admitted to a private hospital and is now stable. His wife has no symptoms.

 

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