Dengue fever grips Pakistani province

[Blackwater]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's eastern Punjab province is in the grip of a dengue epidemic with dozens of cases being reported daily at various hospitals, Xinhua reported.

At least 145 cases of dengue fever were reported in Lahore, the provincial capital, over the past three days. Several other cities in Punjab have also been hit, a report issued by the provincial health department said on Friday.

A total of 1,419 dengue cases were reported in the province this year, :shocked::shocked::shocked:of which 1,358 patients recovered.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was in Lahore Friday offered help from the federal government to tackle the problem.

Dengue, an acute febrile disease spread by the aedes aegypti mosquito, has been endemic in Pakistan for the past few years. It spreads most often after the rainy season in July and August when pools of standing water serve as ideal mosquito breeding grounds.

Symptoms of dengue fever include high fever, severe body pain, itching and red spots, bleeding from nose and teeth and severe pain in the eyes.

Dengue fever grips Pakistani province - The Times of India

 

[Blackwater]

Invest more in begger army, infest more people:thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

[Dovah]

Come on, this is a cheap shot. Not saying Pakis don't deserve it but we are better than this.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

India needs to be careful even something like this can be utilized by terrorists as a form of biological warfare.

 

[Blackwater]

11 including Sec Mineral Development die of dengue

LAHORE: Secretary Punjab Mineral Development Corporation, Ataullah Siddiqui died of Dengue fever Monday, Geo News reported. He was hospitalised on Friday after he was diagnosed with the virus.
Siddiqui who joined government services in 1985 leaves behind a wife and two daughters.

His death comes as the number of Dengue patients continues to rise across Punjab and Lahore in particular where over 3,000 cases have been reported. The virus has also claimed the lives of ten people in the province.

Meanwhile hospitals in the province are finding it difficult to cope with the large number of Dengue cases. Emergency has been declared in all hospitals of Lahore due to the Dengue virus.

Pakistan is importing medicine from india and china.

Why Pakistan import medicine from kufurs?? Garat kaha gayi???

 

[maomao]

This is a conspiracy of Hindu Baniya and Upper caste Hindus against the Pious innocent peace loving muslims of pakistan; because Zionists, Baniyas and Crusaders want to destroy the best creation of Allah, i.e fort of Islam named 'pakistan' - the land of the pure who do not watch Camel/Doggy Porn on their PCs gifted by their Kufar master the US. Conspiracy conspiracy and conspiracy against the pious muslims and finally Islam in danger by Kufar Blood sucking 'Hindu' Mosquitoes -- Next Hot topic of this shameless beggar state's TV shows!

 

[Blackwater]

Four types of dengue reported in Pakistan


KARACHI: The recent outbreak of dengue fever confirmed the presence of all four types of dengue viral infections in Pakistan. Experts also warned that dengue could spread severely throughout the country as it has in the province of Punjab.

This was stated by Dr. Javed Akram, the Head of Jinnah Hospital Lahore and chairman of dengue expert committee.
Until date, officially more than 3,500 people have been infected and over a dozen have died from the recent dengue outbreak in Pakistan.

"These are the official figures but I think the number of unreported dengue patients is more than 500, 000,"Akram told Dawn.com.

Akram said that in the past they had warned the authorities about the worst possible outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan but this time they seemed to have been too late. Next year, the epidemic will be even more catastrophic than it has been now, he added.

Akram, along with others contributed a research paper about the 2008 dengue outbreak study in two hospitals of Lahore. The paper was published in 2009 in the International Journal of Infectious Disease.

An estimated 100 million persons worldwide get infected with dengue annually, a resurging viral infection spread by the mosquito Aedes aegyptii. In Pakistan Aedes aegyptii is mainly responsible for this disease.

Several hundred thousands of patients develop dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) — a more severe, usually fatal form in which bleeding and shock occurs.

A study of two outbreaks in Lahore in 2008, conducted on 110 patients from two hospitals, showed more than half of them had developed the more severe form which is now confirmed by the current dengue outbreak in Punjab.

Malik Asif Humayoun, then the head of the department of medicine at Allama Iqbal Medical College and the Jinnah Hospital, and his colleagues describe this increase in the more severe form as compared to previous years as alarming.

Four strains of the dengue virus circulate worldwide, including South Asia, and the fatal DHF form occurs when a previously infected and cured dengue patient gets re-infected again, usually with a different strain of the virus.

Two of these were reported in previous outbreaks in Karachi city, while a third has been reported in the Lahore outbreak of 2008. Now all four types of dengue serotypes have been confirmed in Punjab.

"There is urgent need to have a countrywide epidemiological survey for multiple dengue serotypes (strains)," said Humayoun.

There is also a need for larger clinical studies in Pakistan and other South Asian countries to better understand the range of infections, endemic patterns and genetic susceptibility of different populations to the dengue virus, the researchers concluded.

Integrated Dengue Control

Dr. Akram stressed the need of an integrated vector control strategy. He said that mosquito sprays are not sufficient as we need a multiple approach for mosquito eradication, such as biological control, Larvicide, mass awareness, quarantine for patients and travel advisory.


Guppy fishes are the best agent for the biological control of dengue mosquito. – Photo by Syed Salahuddin Qadri

"The dengue mosquito larva could survive for more than a year even in a dry place," Akram added.

"Public awareness is the only way to prevent dengue fever," said Syed Salahuddin Qadri

Qadri is an Assistant Professor of Zoology at Jamia Milia Degree College in Karachi and is currently working on a project about dengue mosquito control sponsored by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.

"Spray does little to control the dengue as the mosquito can be found in flush tanks, around abandoned junk on roofs of houses and even in closed underground tanks," said Qadri.

Qadri added that the Pakistani media did nothing for mass awareness against dengue fever.

Qadri said that one of his colleagues, Dr Tariq, found that the drained larva of Aedes Aegyptii flourished and even appeared healthier in clear water. The mosquito can fly over 100 meters.

Qadri urge people to investigate the mosquito habitat carefully as it is found in water from air conditions, gardens and potted plants. He said that he even found a larva of dengue mosquito in soft drink cap!

Four types of dengue reported in Pakistan | Sci-tech | DAWN.COM

 

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Pakistan wants emergency dengue drugs from India

Dengue medicines should be immediately imported from India, Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab province, has demanded.
Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday ordered immediate import of medicines from India during an emergency meeting, reported The Nation Monday. He asked the provincial health secretary to promptly get in touch with the Indian High Commissioner to import the WHO-approved medicines from Delhi.
The chief minister told the meeting they decided to import medicines and equipment against dengue on an emergency basis and Indian medicines were in the proximity.
He also directed officials to contact the Sri Lankan high commissioner for staff, equipment, technical assistance and medicines.

 

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Sri Lankan Dengue specialist team takes wing

A team of Sri Lankan specialists left for Pakistan in order to help eradicate the Dengue disease which had spread in the Lahore and Punjab

The Ministry of Health said that the twelve (12) member team consists of specialists on communicable diseases physicians and paediatricians.

The Ministry further stated that the team of specialists were sent on a request made by the Pakistani government.

The team is led by specialist doctor in communicable diseases, scientist Hasitha Thisera.

The team will remain in Pakistani for ten (10) days. Nebulizing units and drugs including saline of the type Dextran 40 given to dengue patients have also been sent to Pakistan.

During the visit doctors in Pakistan are expected to be given training on eradicating dengue.

 

[Singh]

This is a conspiracy of Hindu Baniya and Upper caste Hindus against the Pious innocent peace loving muslims of pakistan; because Zionists, Baniyas and Crusaders want to destroy the best creation of Allah, i.e fort of Islam named 'pakistan' - the land of the pure who do not watch Camel/Doggy Porn on their PCs gifted by their Kufar master the US. Conspiracy conspiracy and conspiracy against the pious muslims and finally Islam in danger by Kufar Blood sucking 'Hindu' Mosquitoes -- Next Hot topic of this shameless beggar state's TV shows!

Man you are so stupid. Dengue mosquitoes breeds in clean waters, and this Dengue epidemic shows Pakistan is economically better than Bhindia.

 

[Blackwater]

7 Chinese engineer also got trapped in dengue virus in lahore.All hospitalized, one of them serious. Interestingly. Chinese govt refused to take them back as they fear they might spread disease in china lollllllll

who told them to go to diseased infected na-pak land...

 

[maomao]

Man you are so stupid.

Aren't all Kufar Hindu/Singh/Sikh born Dark, Stupid and Ugly-Fugly unlike pretty, fair, slim-trim, gorgeous,sweet, tender-delicate, innocent looking pakistani men (pun intended)? Now you have proved them correct!! No doubt you are Singh is King among us!!

Dengue epidemic shows Pakistan is economically better than Bhindia.

Again, you prove them correct in an oxymoron manner - don't you know 'pakistan may be a poor geographical boundary (though ever shrinking) but pakistanis are the richest people in the world, with the blessings of almighty Allah, where (rich pakis) do not even bother to help dieing flood victims when state of pakistan calls out for help - let the poor die aye - well soon there will be only rich pakistanis left to ponder - thanks for the blessings in disguise - the floods/earthquakes/droughts/terrorism et al'.........Man you Bhindians are the not just Kufar but even stupid!

 

[Blackwater]

Pakistan blaming India for spreading dengue:thumb::thumb:

 

[Dovah]

India must stop water and mosquito terrorism against Pakistan or they'll use the nukes.

 

[Tomcat]

Pakistan blaming India for spreading dengue:thumb::thumb:

where is the story blackwater

 

[Blackwater]

where is the story blackwater

Pls watch Ary news ,DM digital Manchester base napaki channel

 

[Armand2REP]

Why do you take such joy in the misery of others? They are still people who not so long ago were called Indians.

 

[Tomcat]

because moi missure we have seen mothing but the bloodlust of loot and rape in their eyes sinces that fate full day in aug 14- 1947 and i have seen them butcher my bothers and sisters sinces the 1980's Sso what am i suppose to show Hug them and say that i forgive them all through their bloody backstabbing they took away half my motherland places that were scared to me were alienated from me for ever they snatched away what is right fully mine so what should i say its ok you might say that in france but here in india as an indian i want all my country back and for me sinces the bloodbath in bombay pakistanis are nothing but scum

 

[Blackwater]

Why do you take such joy in the misery of others? They are still people who not so long ago were called Indians.

Ask them India never was in picture and na-pakistan is 1000yrs old Civilisation.. It was there fault,, who told them to part in 1947 and go to this na-pak land.

Iam not having joy on there misery .I am having joy on there comments on TV that India breaded mosquito in a Daba and smuggled to pak lolllllllllllll

 

[JBH22]

Why do you take such joy in the misery of others? They are still people who not so long ago were called Indians.

huh why compare us with these superior islamic warlords?? to their eyes we are sub humans as it is the news of Dengue fever gripping them is not going to bring tears to my eyes