PAPE'ETE, Tahiti, French Polynesia (28 Sept 2001) -- A six-year-old girl died of dengue fever this week in Tahiti. She had been hospitalized "in an irreversible state of shock," according to an official statement from French Polynesia's Health Department. The dengue fever epidemic has now been going on for eight months in the French territory and the mosquito-borne sickness has caused the deaths of seven children. | | Tahiti's dengue epidemic worst ever About 31,000 dengue fever cases have been recorded, with 1,040 persons hospitalized. SOURCE - PINA |
