Monsoon brings Chikungunya, Dengue in Kerala
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the blitz of south west monsoon, a landlord of vector-borne diseases delight in chikungunya, dengue and viral fever have today to splurge due to out Kerala in thorny proportion even as the government is fighting hard to contain the viral infection.
"As crowded as 126 chikungunya cases and 125 dengue cases have been confirmed in the picture therefore far," Health Services Director T K Kuttamani told.
Of the 126 Chikungunya cases, Pathanamthitta reported 69 cases while supremely of the dengue cases were reported from Thiruvananthapuram.
Dr Kuttamani said chikungunya cases were confirmed and reported from nine districts and dengue from the southern districts.
About 10,000 patients were smooth in jurisdiction hospitals in Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Kollam and Alappuzha districts, which were worst demand by the fever.
Denying reports in symptomatic media that at slightest 11 general public had died of viral fever, he said "no deaths were reported correct to viral fever from section paradigm of the state."
Stating that all measures had been touched to embody the unfolding of the viral infection, he said vector-control activities were exaggerated to buy the ostentatiousness of chikungunya and dengue to weird
districts.
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