National Dengue Day: World's half of population at risk, awareness & preventions are best solutions National Dengue Day celebrated on 16th of May every year, is a novel initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to raise awareness about dengue in India. A number of celebrations are organized on this occasion, where symptoms and signs of dengue, effective measures to prevent the disease and government's plan and preparedness to control its spread before transmission season starts, are discussed and disseminated.The World Health Organization (WHO) produces alarming picture in this regard, saying dengue incidences have risen exponentially globally and about half of the world's population are at risk. The organization also estimates 100-400 million cases of infections every year globally. In India, too, dengue occurs especially in rainy season, causing upheavals in social sector.Haryana, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi & Jammu & Kashmir have been infected by this disease. In 2017, maximum numbers of dengue cases were reported from Tamilnadu followed by Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Delhi and other states.The Central Government has continuously taken a number of steps to prevent this disease. Free diagnostic facilities through 713 Sentinel Surveillance Hospitals (SSHs) and 17 Apex Referral laboratories (ARLs) identified across the country, are fully functional for the purpose. The Centre reviewed much in advance the preparedness for prevention and control of dengue on 2nd February, 2022 and multidisciplinary central teams have been deputed for the states for technical support. Under National Health Mission, necessary and sufficient budgetary support is also provided to states/UTs for dengue control activitiesTo make all possible effort to avert any new upsurge, the state authorities are urged to focus on a number of things like- ensuring compliance of COVID-appropriate behavior and observance of COVID-safe festivities, implementing intensive containment and active surveillance in clusters reporting high cases and not delay imposition of restrictions, increased testing while maintaining RT-PCR ratio, prompt commissioning of PSA plants, oxygen cylinders, concentrators & ventilators, regular reviews for priority implementation of ECRP-II to ensure preparedness with enough headroom, monitoring of infection spread in children considering that few states have opened schools, monitoring of mutations including sending sufficient samples for genome sequencing.
Dengue is a viral disease caused by dengue virus and is transmitted by bite of Aedes aegypti mosquito infected with any one of the four dengue viruses. Aedes aegepti mosquito bites during daylight hours. Normally, a person develops symptoms 3-14 days after the infective bite. Patients who are already infected with the dengue virus can transmit the infection to other via Aedes mosquitoes during 4-5 days of onset of symptoms and its prevention and control depends on effective vector control measures. Dengue fever starts with sudden onset of fever, followed by severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and rash. Dengue haemorrhagic fever has an acute onset of fever followed by abdominal pain, vomiting, bleeding. A small proportion of cases may show fatal disease as dengue shock syndrome.
There are no specific antiviral medicines for dengue. Early clinical diagnosis by physician and proper clinical management lowers the fatality rates below 1%. Use of analgesics/pain reliever with paracetamol, promoting patient to drink plenty of fluids and rest are important.
However, precautions are considered the best measures to spread its spread. Water from coolers and other small containers like plastic containers, buckets, used automobile tyres, water coolers, pet watering containers and flower vases, should be removed at least once in a week. Line Not Html
Dengue is a viral disease caused by dengue virus and is transmitted by bite of Aedes aegypti mosquito infected with any one of the four dengue viruses. Aedes aegepti mosquito bites during daylight hours. Normally, a person develops symptoms 3-14 days after the infective bite. Patients who are already infected with the dengue virus can transmit the infection to other via Aedes mosquitoes during 4-5 days of onset of symptoms and its prevention and control depends on effective vector control measures. Dengue fever starts with sudden onset of fever, followed by severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and rash. Dengue haemorrhagic fever has an acute onset of fever followed by abdominal pain, vomiting, bleeding. A small proportion of cases may show fatal disease as dengue shock syndrome.
There are no specific antiviral medicines for dengue. Early clinical diagnosis by physician and proper clinical management lowers the fatality rates below 1%. Use of analgesics/pain reliever with paracetamol, promoting patient to drink plenty of fluids and rest are important.
However, precautions are considered the best measures to spread its spread. Water from coolers and other small containers like plastic containers, buckets, used automobile tyres, water coolers, pet watering containers and flower vases, should be removed at least once in a week. Line Not Html
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