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Chennai: The recent report of the National Program for the Control of Vector-borne Diseases has revealed the increase of all vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, the syndrome of Acute encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis in the last three months
. The number of malaria cases in Tamil Nadu doubled from 609 to 1,383, recording a peak of about 774 cases between April and May. There were 46 cases due to Plasmodium falciparum (PF), the parasite that causes malaria and is transmitted by the bite of an anopheles female mosquito. FP cases increased to 81 this year until May.
Although malaria cases have been reduced by 47% in the last five years in the country, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Union, they continue to be a major problem of public health in Tamil Nadu. The number of malaria cases increased from 4,341 in 2016 to 5,449 in 2017.
While dengue cases are under control compared to last year which recorded 23,035 cases and 63 deaths in the state, 204 new cases have been registered in the last three months.
The number of dengue cases in the state went from 1.451 to 1.655, but there were no new deaths due to the same thing. The acute encephalitis syndrome caused three deaths in April-June this year and the number of cases doubled during this period, bringing the toll to 538 cases.
Cases of Japanese encephalitis also increased from 25 to 49 during the same period. Tamil Nadu records 99 cases of chikungunya until June 2018 according to the national program of fight against vector-borne diseases.
The southern districts of Tamil Nadu, including Dharmapuri, Sivagangai and Madurai, reported outbreaks of malaria, while Madurai, Dindigul, Sivagangai and Virudhunagar since the beginning of this year according to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program. National Center for Disease Control. Cases of chikungunya have been reported in large numbers in Dindigul, Tiruvallur, Virudhunagar and Ariyalur.
Despite various efforts to keep the number of cases of vector-borne diseases at a low level, the numbers have steadily increased. However, officials from the Department of Public Health have accused environmental factors of an increase in the incidence of infectious diseases in Tamil Nadu.
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