Dengue Fever Suspected In Sumida Ward of Tokyo

Above, the Tokyo Skytree and Asahi Beer Hall in Sumida Ward. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Another person has possibly come down with dengue fever after being bitten by a mosquito at Sumida Park in the Sumida Ward of Tokyo.

The Japan Times reported:

The health ministry said Thursday that dengue fever infection may have spread to Sumida Ward, Tokyo, relatively far from where recent infections with the mosquito-borne tropical disease are believed to have occurred. 

A woman in her 20s from Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, was bitten by a mosquito while at Sumida Park for about two hours on the afternoon of Sept. 14, the ministry said. 

She began to show dengue fever symptoms on Sept. 19 and is still hospitalized. She has not traveled overseas recently nor visited Yoyogi Park or other places in Tokyo where infections happened.

The infections started in Yoyogi Park, which is near Shibuya. Other infections have been reported from other areas of Tokyo. Sumida Ward is miles away from Yoyogi Park and is across the Sumida River from Asakusa. The Asahi Beer Hall and Tokyo Skytree are in Sumida Ward.

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