Wednesday, 26 JULY 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The cumulative number of dengue patients in provisional State capital Dehradun mounted to 88 with the district health department reporting four new cases of the disease on Tuesday.
The Health department collected 236 samples of the patients for the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test and out of them four samples were found positive for the disease. A total of 25 patients of the disease are undergoing treatment in different hospitals of the district. 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.
