80 cases, health dept faces dengue fight
The late monsoon has left behind a severe attack of dengue in the Capital, particularly in the Central Delhi and Civil Lines.
The late monsoon has left behind a severe attack of dengue in the Capital, particularly in the Central Delhi and Civil Lines.
In all the 24 dengue-affected areas of State capital malaria office and Bhopal Municipal Corporation are jointly emitting smoke by fogging machine and killing the mosquitoes. This drive was started on October 9.
Health authorities have warned that the dengue mosquito is raising its ugly head again in the Matale district. Director of Health Services, Matale Dr. W.G.A. Dissanayake said the prevailing inclement weather had resulted this state.
The Health Ministry of Sri Lanka has decided to use the lavicide Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis (BTI) bacteria imported from Cuba to control the fast spreading mosquito-born dengue disease in selected areas of the central hill country as a model program.
While the country is preparing to combat pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus, another outbreak of a virus called dengue is gradually escalating at an alarming level. City hospitals are seeing huge number of patients everyday. Health experts warned that if proper measures are delayed, the condition could be more fatal than that we are experiencing now.
Pune Even as swine flu has been taking its toll on the city in the last two months, two strains of the dengue virus have also been on the prowl, say city-based doctors. So much so that dengue patients are being wrongly diagnosed for swine flu due to the similarity of the symptoms, says Dr Rajesh Gadia. Till mid-September, Dr Gadia has admitted 47 new patients to the KEM hospital.
Around 27 patients afflicted with dengue have been admitted to three hospitals in the capital in a few days as the fever is spreading, said physicians. Fourteen dengue patients were being treated in Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital till Thursday evening, said sources. AR Khan, director of the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, said they had admitted one to two patients daily in a few days.
The Health Ministry, in collaboration with the police, the Civil Defence Committee (CDC) and Colombo Municipal Council employees with public volunteers, carried out a dengue awareness programme in the the Pettah area, a spokesman for the Health Ministry said on Tuesday (22).
Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Captain Jaipal Singh in a statement issued here on Thursday accused the state government not taking seriously the deadly diseases like dengue and malaria falciparem fevers.
The overall swine flu situation in Dhaka city improved during the Eid vacation but the number of patients with dengue fever increased, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research on Wednesday.
90 per cent children of the state would be administered vaccination within the next two years. According to the new medicine policy it will be ensured that medicines are made available in all hospitals. A people oriented strategy to wipe out malaria and dengue fever from the state would be prepared. Minimum number of transfers would be effected in medical department.
Three persons died of dengue while six others have contracted the disease in Chhattisgarh
MUMBAI: Another mosquito-borne disease is slowly making its presence felt in the city. The incidence of dengue, the viral disease spread by the colourful Tiger (Aedes Aegypti) mosquitoes, has been increasing. A number of doctors have observed that children, especially, are falling prey to the virus.
As many as 181 patients were tested positive in a dengue virus examination out of the 631 samples examined at various public and private sector laboratories over the eight days of this month, sources close to the health ministry said on Tuesday. Such a big number of dengue positive cases indicates that the virus across the city is active.
The dengue epidemic which hit Sri Lanka last January is now under control and the death rate is zero. The number of dengue cases reported during the 36th week is only 49, the latest statistics of the Epidemiology Unit of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry says.
Sept. 8: After the swine flu havoc, cases of cholera, jaundice, malaria and dengue are on the rise. A confirmed case of chikungunya has also been reported in the city. In all, 72 cases of cholera have been recorded in the city till September 7 compared to 64 in 2008 and 36 in 2007. Likewise, 45 cases of jaundice and 16 cases of dengue have also been reported.