Thirty seven new cases of dengue surfaced in the provisional State capital on Friday. With them the numbers of people affected by the disease have now risen to 231 this season.
The District in-charge of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Dr Puneet Chandra said that out of the total positive cases for the dengue this year, 116 are from Dehradun district, 82 are from Haridwar district, three from Tehri, two from Rudraprayag, one from Chamoli while 25 are from neighboring districts of Uttar Pradesh.
The department has collected samples of 4,492 patients this year out of which 231 patients have been found positive in Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay (ElISA) which is the confirmatory test for the disease.
Dengue is a dreaded disease which is spread by Aedes Aezypti or tiger mosquito. The mosquito 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.