Four new cases of Dengue were reported by the district health department on Monday. With them the total number of patients affected by dreaded vector borne disease has reached to 21 in Dehradun. The District vector borne diseases officer Subhash Joshi said that reports of two males ( 24 and 20 years) and two females ( 18 and 13 years) were found positive for dengue. Incidentally three patients belonged to Raipur Road area which is bearing maximum brunt of the disease. He said that 17 patients out of 21 are residents of Dehradun while others belong to other districts.
The symptoms of Dengue are persistently high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decrease drastically which could prove fatal for the patient.