The declining temperature is failing to control menace of dengue in Dehradun district. On Tuesday, nine new cases of the disease were reported by the district health authorities taking the number of people affected by the disease to 296 this season.
The District in-charge of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Dr Puneet Chandra said 296 cases have been so far been reported positive for the dengue this year, out of which 137 are from Dehradun district, 112 are from Haridwar district, four from Tehri, two each from Pauri and Rudraprayag, one from Chamoli. Apart from them 30 patients are from different districts of Uttar Pradesh.
The department has so far collected samples of 5794 patients this year for the Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) which is the confirmatory test for the disease. Incidentally as many as 113 cases of dengue have been reported in the month of October alone till date.
Dengue is spread by Aedes Aezypti or tiger mosquito. It has characteristic stripes on its body due which it is called tiger mosquito. It strikes during day time and experts suggest that people should wear full sleeved clothes to prevent mosquito bite