NEW DELHI: Delhi reported 37 new dengue cases on Friday taking the total number of such cases this season to 796. Thirty-three cases were reported from three municipal corporations while one was from the NDMC area of the capital and three from other states. Two children have so far succumbed to mosquito-borne infection in the last two months.
Municipal health officials said that 281 cases have been reported from south Delhi so far followed by 266 cases from north and 211 from east. An official said that on Wednesday 39 dengue cases were reported, maximum for a day this season.
"Aedes aegypti, the mosquito which transmits the viral infection, grows the most at room temperature. Any decrease in the temperature, as has been observed over the last few days, will check the growth," said Dr Ekta Gupta, associate professor, department of clinical virology at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS).
The doctors at private hospitals also said there has been a significant reduction in dengue cases this week. "From 10 cases daily, the numbers have gone down to two cases per day," said Dr Anupam Sibal, group medical director at Apollo hospitals. He added, "But there is a lot of panic among people. Many of them insist on admission even if there is slight or insignificant decrease in platelet count. Small children are often subjected to multiple blood tests to monitor vital parameters by the anxious parents."
Dr M P Sharma, head of the internal medicine department at Rockland hospital said that platelet counts tend to fall even in viral fever, malaria and other infections.
A part ça moi ça va, même si j'habite dans la zone la plus touchée... Encore quelques jours de chute de température (il fait déjà froid les matins et soirs) et je pourrai dire que j'y ai officiellement échappé pour mes deux ans de contrat!
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