Mosquitoes

After Mumbai, Pune coping with dengue, flu cases

Pune: With a surge in Swine flu deaths in recent months, the health scenario in Pune is further compounded with the spread of dengue cases leading to a face-off between city fathers and civic administration. Concerns are being expressed over about 300 dengue cases reported in the city during the last two and a half months out of which three proved to be fatal. The health authorities, already hard pressed to put in place effective measures to combat Swine Flu which has claimed as many as 25 victims since April, seem to be struggling to meet new threat in the form of rapidly increasing dengue cases.

Admitting a rise in dengue cases, Chief Medical officer of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said the city had witnessed 137 cases this month in addition to as many as 135 reported in September. "Dengue cases in the city are on the rise and still under-reported," he said, appealing the people to take urgent steps to control mosquito breeding in the clean and stagnant indoor water stock.

When corporators belonging to all parties attacked the civic administration in the General Body meeting on Thursday alleging laxity in handling the menace, PMC commissioner Mahesh assured the house that a detailed report on the measures initiated by the health officials would be presented on November 5. He also put the latest figure of dengue cases in the city at 360 which has set the alarm bells ringing.

The dengue menace at present is coupled

11:16 AM, Oct 27, 2012

BMC seeks report on Yash Chopra's death due to dengue

After filmmaker Yash Chopra's death put the focus on dengue in Mumbai, the BMC has asked Lilavati Hospital for a report on Chopra's death. The BMC says this would help in identifying measures to counter outbreak of dengue. The BMC also says they had found mosquitoes breeding at the offices of Yash Raj films which could have been where the filmmaker caught the virus. So far 650 cases of dengue ...

11:12 AM, Oct 23, 2012

Kolkata faces dengue outbreak, govt apathetic

by Sougata Mukhopadhyay,CNN-IBN

Kolkata: Kolkata is reeling under its worst bout of dengue this monsoon season. Two patients have succumbed in the past fortnight and government and private hospitals are flooded with dengue patients. However, despite recurrence of dengue outbreak in the recent past, the state Health Department is ill-equipped to contain the disease. Twenty-four-year-old Abhay Pratap Yadav, a migrant skilled worker from Uttar Pradesh, was admitted to a nursing home in Kolkata...

03:48 PM, Sep 03, 2012

Dengue and malaria hit Gujarat, Hyderabad

by Shalini,CNN-IBN

New Delhi: It is that time of the year when dengue and malaria cases are at its peak. The worst hit this time have been Gujarat and Hyderabad. Mosquito maladies malaria and dengue have hit Ahmedabad with 9,392 cases of malaria reported, against more than 5,900 cases from last year. There have been more than 450 cases of dengue as well. So far this year, 63 people in Ahmedabad have...

04:24 PM, Oct 19, 2011

Delhi reports 79 new cases of dengue

by CNN-IBN

New Delhi: The national capital on Wednesday reported 79 new cases of dengue, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 3,782, an official said. With about 500 cases, south Delhi is the worst affected area, said an official of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Seven persons have died because of the disease this year. (with inputs from agencies) ...

12:11 PM, Oct 07, 2010

Can Delhi contain the dengue menace?

Heavy rains have spelled bad news in the capital especially in the light of the rising number of dengue cases. CNN-IBN has found out that dengue cases are being under reported by the Delhi government. MCD has reported 300 dengue cases and one death this season but CNN-IBN found out from top private hospitals that there have been 763 cases and five deaths. ...

09:56 PM, Aug 19, 2010