Yoyogi Koen, one of the largest and most popular parks in central Tokyo, will be fumigated after three people diagnosed with dengue fever said they were bitten by mosquitoes there.
The two women and one man who contracted the disease are acquaintances and are the first domestic cases of dengue fever since the 1940s, according to a Health Ministry statement. A sample of mosquitoes collected at the park didn’t carry the virus, according to the statement.
Dengue is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito and can’t be spread directly from person to person. It causes flu-like symptoms and high fevers. There are more than 50 to 100 million cases of dengue worldwide each year and 3 billion people living in dengue endemic countries, according to the World Health Organization’s website.
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Yoyogi covers 54 hectares (134 acres) of parkland, including fields, ponds and trees, and gets thousands of visitors every weekend. The health ministry suspects that domestic mosquitoes picked up the virus from people who arrived from elsewhere.
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