Chitwan Reports 274 Dengue Cases in One Year

Chitwan. In Chitwan district, 274 people have been diagnosed with dengue disease in the last one year. According to the vector controller of the District Public Health Office, Ram KC, out of 10,523 people tested, this number of dengue infections were found.

Out of the infected, 216 were from Chitwan and the remaining 58 were from other districts. He said that the highest number of dengue cases, 87, were found in Ratnanagar Municipality.

56 people from Bharatpur Metropolitan City, 35 from Khairahani Municipality, 21 from Rapti Municipality, 11 from Kalika Municipality, three from Madi Municipality, and three from Ichhakamana Rural Municipality were diagnosed with dengue infection.

In the last financial year, 3,889 people were diagnosed with dengue infection. KC said that dengue was found in them during the testing of 17,353 people. One person had died due to dengue in that financial year.

Doctors say that dengue disease is more common in August and September because the weather is conducive for mosquitoes due to rain and sunshine. Doctors say that dengue disease is spread by the bite of the female Aedes mosquito. KC informed that this mosquito usually bites in the morning and evening.

He said that this mosquito lays eggs in clean water accumulated in plastic, tin cans, drums, old or worn-out tires, flower pots, coolers, and open water tanks.

The District Public Health Office states that symptoms of dengue include pain in the eyeballs and head, body, joints, bones, and muscles, as well as rashes on the body, bleeding, and high fever.

Symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bleeding from the nose or gums, and hemorrhage appear. The District Public Health Office, Chitwan, has stated that to avoid dengue fever, one must avoid mosquito bites. Similarly, KC said that water should not be allowed to accumulate in empty bottles, tar or kerosene drums, old tires, etc., thrown around the place where one lives.