A SIGNIFICANT number of hospital admission for dengue fever,聽a mosquito-borne viral infection, in three months warrants that the government should step up its effort to prevent an outbreak. The death toll from the disease has increased to 14 and the number of cases 1,954 since January. In 2024, dengue left 22 people dead and 1,747 others were admitted to in the...
THE dengue outbreak, with at least 82,120 cases of hospital admission and 422 deaths from dengue, is worsening by the day as the government is yet to develop an effective mechanism to trace source vector mosquitoes and prevent further spread of the virus. Entomologists and virologists consider source detection, the spots from where the...
The Socialist Party of Bangladesh on Thursday submitted a memorandum with seven demands, including effective measures for dengue prevention, to the administrator of the Dhaka South City Corporation...
THE average daily hospital admission of patients with dengue, which in the first six days in September doubled the number in the corresponding days of August, suggests a potentially threatening outbreak of the disease and a general failure of the health and local government authorities concerned to control the dengue vector during the...
IT IS possible to get the desired results only if we can find out the real reasons behind the spread of dengue in the past decades. A plan must be formulated, considering as many risk factors as there are...