Dengue Dengue go away

The most serious issue threatening India, especially Delhi, is Dengue fever. In this year, so far 5,982 cases have been reported in Delhi alone and this is major outbreak in the last six years. Though the government has still not used the word epidemic, doctors have confirmed that it is an epidemic. An epidemic is a rapid spread of a particular infectious disease among a large group of people in a short span of time usually two or three weeks. So far 33 people have died in this year in Delhi due to dengue. 

          The mosquito that causes dengue is the female Aedes aegypti mosquito. An Aedes mosquito can lay eggs 3 times in its lifetime and each time it lays about 100 eggs. Each egg grows into a larva in less than one day and the larva grows into a pupa in about three to four days. Finally the pupa grows into a mosquito in about two days. After the mosquito has grown, it bites a person and lays the eggs and the cycle will continue. When the mosquito bites an infected person, the dengue virus is transmitted to the mosquito. The virus loses its effectiveness after 7 days of biting the infected person but within this period if it bites another person who is not infected by dengue, the virus passes on to him. According the World Health Organization (WHO), the dengue infection rates are higher outdoors during daytime, when these mosquitoes bite more frequently. 

How to stay safe?

  • Wear clothes that exposes very little part of your skin, during day time.
  • When it is mandatory to go to garden or near water logged area, make sure that you have applied mosquito repellent cream on your skin. Many mosquito repellent creams such as Odomos, Mos Q Shield, Good Knight Naturals, Surete animosquito, etc are cheaply available in the markets.
  • When you are indoor, make sure you are using mosquito repellent coils, vaporizers, mats, sprays, etc to prevent yourself from the bite.
  • Do not allow stagnant water near your households because, these Aedes mosquitoes can move only 400 meters from the place where the egg are hatched. So if there is no stagnant water in your surrounding, then there is no worry of dengue.
  • Children should not be allowed to play near grass, water, etc as they are more susceptible to dengue fever. 
Whatever the diseases is, staying safe is in our hands, in spite of the government taking any actions to prevent any outbreak of the disease.  

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