Comparative case study of sociodemographic and environmental factors in Rasah and Seremban

As commonly known tropical disease, the battle against eradication of dengue has yet to reap much success. In Malaysia, dengue disease is a major burden of disease as it caused more than 130,000 cases as per 2019. Efforts have been made by various private and government agencies to eradicate this vector-borne disease. As part of said effort, this cooperative case study aims to understand the patterns of cases and its patients in two localities in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan that have consistently produced high number of infected patients. Based on secondary data obtained from e-notification and e-dengue, variables such as sociodemographic and observations of localities were recorded. While the data yield almost 9 years of cases, analyses showed that dengue cases have no significant difference with either gender or age (p-value>0.05), but for races, the analyses showed that there are high significant differences (p-value<0.05). Observations of the physical environmental characteristics in both of these areas show common grown where, vegetation and abandoned building found to have been place of breeding for mosquitoes. Clearly, while the vector is not shown to be selective in choosing its victim, it is likely that both environment and human activities are closely related to dengue disease transmission such as proper disposal of domestic wastes and the presence of breeding grounds. Thus, this study can be used to formulate strategies to help improved and mitigate the problems.