Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer

Application of Geographic Information System to control dengue outbreak in Tainan city, Taiwan 2015

Authors
Chaoyen Wu, Shengzhe Lin, Chueh-Hui Yeh
Corresponding Author
Chaoyen Wu
Available Online June 2016.
DOI
10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.335How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Geographic Information System; dengue outbreak; Taiwan.
Abstract

Dengue is the most important arthropod-borne disease of human in the world. It is circulating in tropical and sub-tropical countries in Asia, Africa and the Americans. Taiwan has been also the affected area, and hundreds of people are infected over the past years mostly due to the transmission from imported cases. However, people infected dengue virus are over twenty thousand cases in a big history-record outbreak occurred in the southern Taiwan-Tainan city in 2015 because of the abundant rainfall and global warming which facilitated mosquito growth and virus spread. The Tainan dengue control team effectively controls scientific strategy and the control measures will constitute as a model worldwide.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
June 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-210-7
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.335How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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