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AKIPRESS.COM – More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh, the majority of whom are children, have been diagnosed with dengue fever in the last 24 hours, among the worst epidemics ever recorded in the country, a senior official of the Ministry of Health said Tuesday. , reported CNN.
Eight people have died since January and more than 13,600 patients have been diagnosed with mosquito-borne fever since the beginning of the year, with 8,348 cases, more than half, occurring in July – a sharply higher than the 1,820 in June and 184 cases in May this year, according to official figures.
"Since we started keeping a record of dengue cases in 2000, it is the worst dengue epidemic we have ever seen in Bangladesh," Ayesha Akhter, deputy director of CNN, told CNN. Health Services Branch.
According to Akhter, the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka – which has more than 20 million inhabitants – is the hardest hit, said Akhter. Some hospitals are struggling to find room for their patients. .
A viral infection, dengue fever causes flu-like symptoms, including piercing headaches, muscle and joint pain, fever and rashes. According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), about 500 million people with dengue each year worldwide develop severe symptoms requiring hospitalization.
The government's disease control division has requested technical badistance from the WHO to implement methods of controlling the mosquito population, according to a report released this week, with the goal of curbing the spread of the disease at the national level.
In addition, the Ministry of Health has announced that it has developed national guidelines for treatment and aim to raise awareness of the disease through a daily newspaper advertisement, along with information about the disease. Other measures to combat the spread of the disease.
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