প্রকাশ: 05/07/2022
Forty-six new dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours
till Tuesday morning as cases are rising in Bangladesh.
Among them, 43 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while the
remaining three patients in other districts, according to the Directorate
General of Health Services (DGHS).
As many as 152 dengue patients, including 139 in the
capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.
The dengue cases are rising in the capital allegedly due to
insufficient measures taken by the two Dhaka city corporations in preventing mosquito-borne
diseases like dengue.
On June 21, the DGHS reported the first death of the season
from the mosquito-borne viral disease.
This year, the DGHS has recorded 1,284 dengue cases and
1,131 recoveries so far.
Dengue – a leading cause of serious illness and death in
some Asian and Latin American countries – was first reported in Bangladesh in
2000 and claimed 93 lives. In three years, the fatality number almost fell to
zero.
However, 105 dengue patients, including 95 in Dhaka
division, died in 2021.
Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates
worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas.
About 4 billion people, almost half of the world's
population, live in areas with a risk of dengue, according to the US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
Each year, up to 400 million people get infected with dengue
while approximately 100 million get sick from infection, and 40,000 die from
severe dengue, it says.
"There is no specific treatment for dengue or severe
dengue. Early detection of disease progression associated with severe dengue,
and access to proper medical care lowers fatality rates of severe dengue to
below 1 percent," according to the World Health Organization.
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