Dengue alert in Shivamogga

Shivamogga: The Department of Health and Family Welfare has alerted a caution in Chittur town in Sorab taluk following the episode of dengue fever here. Thirty instances of fever and body aches have been accounted for in the town since June 8. Of these, the blood tests of four patients resulted positive for dengue. 

Following the episode, anganwadi workers and Accredited Social Health Activists directed a door-to-door survey in the village to identify larvae-breeding places and to create alertness on the need to maintain tidiness. The larvae of Aedes Aegypti mosquito, responsible of the spread of dengue, were found in samples of water gathered from many houses here. 

A group of medical specialists deputed by the Department of Health and Family Welfare is camping at the village. An abundant supply of medicine has been kept up at the nearby health centre in Shigga town to treat those torment from dengue. In the second week of May as well, two positive instances of dengue were accounted for in Chittur.