Bangladesh: 2017/2018 Chikungunya

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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/12/c_136438598.htm



Bangladesh capital reeling from major outbreak of mosquito-borne disease chikungunya
Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-12 19:09:54|Editor: Song Lifang
by Naim-Ul-Karim

DHAKA, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's capital Dhaka is reeling from a "major outbreak of chikungunya", a viral disease spread by the Aedes mosquito, which is also responsible for Zika virus, with the hospitals reporting nearly 3,000 cases of the disease since May.

"We're currently facing a major outbreak of chikungunya," Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora, head of the country's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) under the Health Ministry, told Xinhua on Wednesday.

She said, "A total of 2,700 chikungunya cases have so far been reported to the IEDCR from hospitals and clinics in Dhaka since May."

A few cases of chikungunya that is a viral disease transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes have also been reported to the IEDCR from Bangladesh's eastern Narsingdi and southwestern Gopalganj district, she added.

IEDCR chief said the disease virtually swept through over capital Dhaka areas in June and it's continuing...

 

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Source: http://www.benarnews.org/english/news/bengali/bangladesh-health-07212017170830.html


Chikungunya Outbreak Spreads Beyond Bangladeshi Capital: Health Officials
Kamran Reza Chowdhury
Dhaka
2017-07-21

A mosquito-borne disease that broke out in Dhaka in April has spread to at least four more districts of Bangladesh with hundreds of confirmed cases, raising fears among health practitioners of a possible epidemic.

The disease, Chikungunya, is rarely fatal and has not caused any deaths in the Bangladeshi capital, but health officials have confirmed 737 cases between April and July 19, according to Dr. Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of the Institute of Epidemiological, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) at the Ministry of Health.

New cases could be reported between now and September, the last month of the rainy season, when mosquitos breed in stagnant waters caused by heavy rains, Flora said.

?So far we have confirmed 737 cases of chikungunya,? Flora told BenarNews. ?We?ve got patients from four more districts ? Gazipur, Narshingdi, Gopalganj and Bogra.?...

 

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Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/health/combating-the-chikungunya-outbreak-1551931

12:00 AM, March 23, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:00 AM, March 23, 2018
Public Health
Combating The Chikungunya Outbreak
Maliha Khan

At a time when the city is once again experiencing a surge of mosquitoes, residents are concerned about a resurgence of the diseases they carry. The mosquitoes biting us at all hours of day and night though are largely of the Culex variety, which while bothersome, does not bear disease. Aedes however causes dengue and worryingly, chikungunya, which crippled many in the city for some time last year.

Last year, Dhaka's residents suffered from raging fever along with severe joint pain (arthralgia) and swelling which restricted them to their beds, unable to get up or even move. Some were hospitalised in droves but many more suffered and recuperated at home, creating a public health crisis across the city. The city corporations and government agencies responded, but how effective were the measures taken in combating the outbreak?...