Hindustan Times (Gurugram)

COMBATING THE MOSQUITO CHALLENGE

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What Delhi — both state health department and civic agencies — must do to prevent an outbreak.

GET THE NUMBERS

RIGHT: Instead of playing down the numbers, record all cases must to quickly identify the transmissi­on hotspots.

OUTBREAK PREDICTION:

Issue outbreak alerts and detection through coordinate­d disease and mosquito-breeding surveillan­ce.

AWARENESS

CAMPAIGNS: Use mass and social media messaging to encourage people to lower risk by cleaning mosquito-breeding spots and adopting personal protection, such as using mosquito nets, insect repellents and loose clothes that cover the body.

MOSQUITO CONTROL:

Swiftly mosquito-control measures, including checking potential breeding spots at home.

TEST AND TREAT: Testing for early diagnosis and quick referrals can help manage severe cases and lower death from dengue haemorrhag­ic fever and dengue shock syndrome.

CREATING INFRASTRUC­TURE: Apart from adding beds, health personnel and medical services need to be reoriented to deal with outbreaks.

Dengue carrier: Aedes aegypti mosquito can breed in a film of water and breeding continues indoors through the winter

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