Overpasses breeding grounds of mosquitoes
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 07/31/2010 12:17 PM
JAKARTA: Flooded land under newly-completed Jakarta Outer Ring Road overpasses have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes and have caused outbreaks of dengue fever in nearby areas, an official says.
West Jakarta health subagency head Yenuarti Suaezi said her office had located several bodies of stagnant water under several overpasses.
“Three sub districts around the section of the toll road connecting Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, to Penjaringan, North Jakarta, have been designated red-alert zones for dengue fever,” Yenuarti Suaezi said as quoted by Kompas.com on Friday, adding that several residents living in the immediate area had contracted the disease.
The three subdistricts, she said, were North Kembangan, Duri Kosambi and Kapuk, where the agency discovered numerous cases of dengue fever in the last three weeks, she said.
On July 27, the subagency reported that 94 cases of dengue fever were reported in the three week period in North Kembangan, 92 in Duri Kosambi and 198 in Kapuk. — JP
