Tag: Dengue Virus

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Dengue Fever in Pakistan, Measures against Dengue Mosquito, Dengue Symptoms and Important Info

Again Dengue Fever threat is looming in Pakistan, as the summer have already started and our new multiparty government which ousted PTI is busy securing itself. Also as its comprised of people from all sorts of parties, we are probably not going to see them focus on things of people’s interest. The point here is this year we are probably not going to see the government doing much to eradicate dengue, like sprays and other measures. People are probably on their own in this regard. So that is why I have ended up making a video which based on my last year’s experience of three people in family being will with family, does provide lots and lots of info about […]

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Dengue situation worsens in Pakistan, specially in Lahore, as it claims more lives

Dengue claims six more lives in Lahore last day, with this reported death toll increases to 70, also reportedly more than 8000 people are effected from the disease. Unreported cases are told to be twice as much as the reported figures. In just last three weeks 130,000 people in Lahore got them tested for dengue disease. Lahore High Court recently have set a standard unusual Rs. 90 price for dengue test all over the hospitals. All the hospitals and the laboratories in province will have to follow this standard price till 15th November for now, afterwards they may continue charging their usual prices for the test. Court was earlier informed via petition that some laboratories are tremendously over charging for […]

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Dengue fever goes out of control in Pakistan with deathtoll further rising

Dengue fever, which spreads from one human to other through mosquito bite, is spreading in Pakistan more rapidly than the fire in the bushes. Official figures already reported 6147 patients and out of which 5715 are told from the city of Lahore in Pakistan. A figure even bigger than the official figures was even not reported. A recent death in thatta Sindh and 3 recently reported deaths in Lahore, Punjab have contributed to this seasons dengue death toll and it reached to the 32 reported deaths as we speak. Even more are most likely to be the unreported fatalities due to dengue fever. All over Pakistan city of Lahore have been most active in terms of dengue outreach, despite claims […]

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How dengue works and how to be safe

Coping with dengue correctly is biggest challenge at the moment for people of Pakistan. 5000 people across Pakistan already affected by dengue fever and 31 of which died, as these were official figures so on ground situation may be even worse. It is very important to act correctly at the moment to be safe, so carefully read following information and share with people you care for greater good. How dengue works/spreads? Dengue virus spreads from person to person but not directly. In fact it can never transfer from one person to another directly. It do spread from one person to another but via mosquitoes trough following events. A mosquito bytes a human with dengue fever and gets infected. Infection grows […]

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Spread of dengue virus in Pakistan now picking pace

Next challenge now for the people of Pakistan is to cope with the spread of dengue virus, which is now spreading very much rapidly. Official figures report that 2000 people in Punjab and 1700 in Sindh are affected by this virus. These figures depict that most of Punjab affectees are from Lahore Punjab. However all areas of Punjab have a number of dengue virus affectees. PIMS Islamabad alone is dealing with 155 patients of dengue virus similarly in Rawalpindi 165 cases have been already reported which include one doctor as well. This is not all, these above figures are official, so it is believed that on ground situation is much more worse. Already there have been sprays led by government […]