Saturday, 05 AUGUST 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The cumulative number of dengue patients in provisional State capital Dehradun mounted to 127 with the Health department reporting eight new cases of the disease on Friday.
The Health department collected 503 samples of the patients for the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test on the day. A total of eight samples were found positive for the disease. Sixteen 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.
