"..Saudi Health Ministry confirms dengue, malaria cases in Jeddah.."

Saudi Arabia confirmed six cases of dengue fever and four malaria cases in Jeddah following last month’s floods in the city, a health official said on Thursday.

There have been 26 suspected cases of dengue fever since the floods, six of which were confirmed, Sami Badawood, director of health affairs in Jeddah, said in a phone interview.

Jeddah’s infectious disease status hasn’t changed and the malaria cases are seasonal and usually imported from abroad or elsewhere in the kingdom, Noha Dashash, the city’s assistant director of health affairs, also said.

Jeddah’s municipality has increased a spraying campaign to check the spread of dengue fever, particularly in the south of the city where the worst of the flooding occurred, according to Amer Hamzah Asseri, supervisor of the municipality’s fumigation and research program.