Rat fever, dengue cases show sharp increase
Health authorities yesterday cautioned that there has been a sharp increase of leptospirosis (rat fever) and dengue this year and that they could develop into epidemic proportions.
Health authorities yesterday cautioned that there has been a sharp increase of leptospirosis (rat fever) and dengue this year and that they could develop into epidemic proportions.
Health Department sources said that it was too early to comment whether the two patients who died after being admitted to the Tangalle Hospital and the other undergoing treatment were suffering from Dengue. Doctors were reluctant to say whether they died of Dengue or any other disease.
Dengue has claimed the lives of six while another 233 are undergoing treatment in the Southern Province hospitals of Matara and Karapitiya. From January to April, 168 Dengue patients have been admitted to the Matara hospital and three of them had died.
IN Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur, one finds neglected and stagnant water ponds in almost every locality. These ponds are the result of an effluent from a community, or groundwater upward seepage due to capillary action, or canal water seepage (in case of Hyderabad and Sukkur), or water received from diffused water sources.