Sunday, 23 JULY 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The number of dengue patients in provisional State capital Dehradun mounted to 76 with the district health department reporting four new cases of the disease on Saturday.
The health department collected 170 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 19 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, Race Course ( police lines, Nai Basti), GMS Road, Dharampur, Kargi and Singhal Mandi 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.
