Thursday, 03 August 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The cases of dengue are continuing to increase in the provisional State capital Dehradun. The district health department reported seven new cases of the disease from different parts of the city on Wednesday. The district now has 112 patients of the vector borne disease that have been reported in this season.
The health department collected 422 samples of the patients for the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test and out of them three samples were found positive for the disease. A total of 14 patients of the disease are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of the district. The department has declared an alert for the residents of Ajabpur Kalan, Bhandari Bag, Pathribag, Singal Mandi , Patel Nagar and GMS Road, Kargi, Adhat Bazar areas of the city.
The district vector borne diseases officer Subhash Joshi said the department is actively engaged in the source reduction activity and awareness campaign against the disease. Dengue is a viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes Aezypti popularly known as Tiger Mosquito. The symptoms of the disease are persistent high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decreases drastically which may prove fatal for the patient.
