Dengue prevention News

As the monsoon season sets in across India, the risk of mosquito-borne diseases, particularly dengue, escalates significantly. Dengue is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which thrives in stagnant water—a common occurrence during the rainy season. With rising temperatures and extended monsoons due to climate change, dengue has become a year-round concern in South Asia.

Dengue and chikungunya are caused by aedes agypti mosquito, which breeds in clear water. Anopheles mosquito, which causes malaria, can breed in both fresh and muddy water.

Dengue is a viral infection commonly spread by the Aedes mosquito. 

The Aedes Aegypti mosquito is the main vector that transmits the dengue virus.

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Amid spread of dengue in several places of Odisha, the Ganjam administration has decided to open a six-bed dengue ward in the district headquarters hospital here.

The Odisha government on Wednesday said it was well prepared, and there was no panic-like situation yet, following the first dengue related death of the year in the state.

Dengue has claimed three more lives in the national capital including a 7-year-old boy who succumbed to the vector-borne disease today.

As the national capital battled the worst outbreak of dengue in the past five years, Delhi Government tonight directed all private hospitals and nursing homes to increase the number of beds, and warned them of strict action if they denied treatment to any dengue patient.

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has issued over 3,000 notices including 90 to the sprawling Rashtrapati Bhawan besides hospitals, government offices and schools during this season after dengue mosquitoes were found breeding in their premises.

To protect children from dengue, the Delhi government on Tuesday issued directions to schools across the city to ensure that for next one month the students attend schools wearing clothes which fully cover them.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain would meet representatives of private hospitals and nursing homes here on Tuesday evening in the wake of media reports of dengue patients being allegedly refused admission, officials said.

Delhi government today asked the three municipal corporations to undertake door-to-door preventive measures and awareness campaigns against dengue on a war footing by asking people not to panic by rising cases of the disease.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said on Monday that the dengue situation is under control and ordered the hospitals to purchase 1,000 new beds to ensure their availability for patients.

Dengue is the most common mosquito-borne viral disease of humans that in recent years has become a major international public health concern.