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Dengue cases are on a rise in Delhi Recent rainfall has made the conditions worse

Delhi has recorded more dengue cases than coronavirus in the last week. The number of patients in the hospitals are continuously increasing.

With the dengue menace gripping almost every nook and corner of the nation in 2017, there has been a sigh of relief towards the culmination of the year.

A further increase in temperature beyond 35 degrees Celsius is detrimental to the mosquito survival, showed the findings published in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections.

As per reports, at least 110 fresh cases of dengue were reported last week pushing the total count of affected people in the National Capital Region to 945.

The number of infections nationwide is already 38 percent higher than last year, when 55,150 people were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died, according to the Health Ministry.

Humid monsoon weather, stagnant water from recent flooding, as well as mounting piles of rotting garbage accumulating in the capital, have combined to create abundant areas for mosquitoes to multiply.

Andhra Pradesh recorded 512 cases, followed by Gujarat 492, Maharashtra 295 and West Bengal 287. Delhi recorded 40 dengue cases as against 13 during the same period last year.

The president of Indian Medical Association Thiruvananthapuram dristrict, Dr. John Paniker on Saturday said the increase in Aedes Mosquito is the reason for the rise in dengue cases in the city.

With 580 cases of dengue being reported last year, an epidemic like situation existed in the state.

K Rajni, a 29-year-old-woman from Sainagar colony in Saroornagar died of Dengue shock syndrome at a hospital in Banjara Hills soon after delivering twins at a nursing home.

The national capital has reported it's first dengue death with an 18-year old succumbing to the mosquito borne disease last week.

Dengue is the world's fastest growing mosquito-borne disease, currently threatening about half the world's population and leading to an estimated 60-100 million symptomatic dengue cases every year. 

The Malaysian health ministry on Wednesday announced that there was more than a 50 percent jump in the number of deaths caused by dengue in 2015 compared to 2014.

The dengue outbreak seems to have plateaued in the second week of November with about 280 cases of the disease reported in the national capital, which was this year faced with its worst outbreak of the vector-borne fever since 1996.

The national capital till now has recorded 14,889 cases of dengue, with over 7,200 of them being reported in October only.

Out of the total dengue cases this year, north Delhi recorded the highest at 4,833, south Delhi at 3,928 while east Delhi posted the lowest with 2,552 cases.

Three children, aged eight, nine and a five-month-old baby, died due to dengue at Kondhara village in the district.

A huge discrepancy exists between two different sets of data compiled by the municipal corporations here pertaining to dengue-related fatalities in the national capital between 2010 and 2014.

 The toll due to dengue in the national capital has risen to 25 after eight more people succumbed to the vector-borne disease, officials said on Thursday.