RAWALPINDI: A Punjab cabinet subcommittee on dengue will monitor an anti-dengue drive in Rawalpindi, and an external evaluation of City District Government Rawalpindi’s (CDGR) efforts in this regard will also be conducted...
The meeting reviewed arrangements to prevent the spread of the dengue virus in the city...
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) staff has launched fumigation in various areas to avert spread of dengue virus...
According to RCB spokesman, this year, an aggressive approach has been adopted to cope with the situation and fight against dengue virus in an effective manner...
LAHORE: Entomologists of the Government College University, Lahore, have successfully genetically modified the aedes aegypti mosquito to block the transmission of dengue virus to humans...
The Zoology Department of the varsity believes “this research has potential to completely eradicate dengue vectors and viruses from Pakistan”...
ISLAMABAD: Expecting a spike in cases of the dengue virus, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has decided to expedite the construction of a dedicated facility for Covid-19 patients in Chak Shahzad...
Last year, outbreaks of the dengue virus were reported Rawalpindi and Islamabad, with more than 13,000 cases in the capital alone...
ISLAMABAD: The dengue outbreak has set a new record in the country as during the current year over 44,000 people have so far been infected with the mosquito-borne disease and 66 of them have lost their lives...
Talking to Dawn, the chief of the Disease Surveillance Division at the National Institute of Health, Dr Rana Safdar, has said that during the current year an unprecedented number of dengue cases were reported across the...
KARACHI: Taking notice of complaints of using expired chemicals in the fumigation spray to control dengue in the metropolis, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday ordered an inquiry against it...
The provincial chief executive took this decision while chairing a meeting about outbreak of dengue at the CM House, according to spokesperson...
KARACHI: Of the 2,703 dengue fever cases in Sindh this year, 2,639 have been reported in Karachi followed by Hyderabad with 24 cases...
Besides, three dengue cases were reported from Thatta, seven from Mirpurkhas, seven from Umerkot, two from Sanghar, three from Sukkur, three from Ghotki, four from Shaheed Benazirabad, nine from Larkana and one each from Shikarpur and Jacobabad...
Consider the case of dengue fever, the potentially life-threatening illness that is contracted through mosquito bites...
Also read: Dengue death toll rises to 10 in RawalpindiThe outbreak can be widespread, as it was during the summer of 2011, when over 300 people lost their lives...
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) has warned the public to be watchful as three months (September to November) are vulnerable to possible dengue spread in the provincial metropolis...
Of the total 1,512 dengue-related cases, 1,408 were reported in these months alone during the years 2013 and 2014,” a spokesman for the city administration said in a statement on Thursday...
RAWALPINDI: The district health department has diverted dengue surveillance teams in 15 urban union councils of the Potohar town to the anti-polio campaign...
Talking to Dawn, a senior health official said now only two of the total 192 teams will perform dengue duty in Shakrial South and Shakrial North union councils...
RAWALPINDI: In order to prevent public resentment of the anti-dengue drive, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has nominated 10 workers each in 61 union councils (UC) to assist the local administration...
PML-N Rawalpindi metropolitan president Sardar Naseem made the announcement at a meeting at the commissioner office that reviewed anti-dengue measures following a struggle between residents and health department...
KARACHI: The provincial health department confirmed on Wednesday that it recorded a total of 182 dengue cases so far this year and all the cases were reported in Karachi...
The figures shared by the Sindh dengue prevention and control programme cell showed not a single case reported anywhere in Sindh except for Karachi...
RAWALPINDI: An ‘anti-dengue’ day was observed in the garrison city on directives from the Punjab government...
The day’s activities aimed to raise awareness regarding preventive measures against the dengue virus...
PESHAWAR: The health department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is taking technical assistance from the mobile health units sent by Punjab government to put brakes on the outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever, which has killed five people besides sending 1,000 others to hospitals during the past one month...
Most of the cases of dengue fever have been reported in Tehkal village...
According to a World Bank study, rising temperatures and humidity levels are likely lead to an increase in vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, yellow fever and encephalitis...
However, the world’s fastest growing vector-borne disease appears to be dengue haemorrhagic fever, which has surged 30-fold over the last 50 years...