Sri Lanka: 2010 dengue cases

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Re: Sri Lanka: 2010 dengue cases

Source: http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10B/Aug06_1281102969CH.php

Dengue-stricken Sri Lanka to have imported larvicide this month
Fri, Aug 6, 2010, 07:26 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Aug 06, Colombo: The Secretary of Sri Lanka's Ministry of Health, Palitha Mahipala says that the larvicide BTI bacteria, to be imported from Cuba this month, will be released soon after receiving to arrest the mosquito-born dengue epidemic.

A BTI bacteria stock of 10,000 liters is to be arrived in the country shortly. The Ministry has planned to spray the bacteria in selected areas with a high spread of dengue as a pilot project.

The Epidemiology Unit of health Ministry reported 177 deaths from dengue among 24,250 cases with nearly 4,000 cases and 45 deaths reporting from Colombo District. Gampaha and Jaffna districts also reported high incidents of the epidemic.

The Ministry Secretary also said that the Industrial Technology Institute has also agreed to issue 5,000 liters of BTI bacteria that was locally manufactured.

Last month the health authorities said that the locally produced bacteria would be issued to market so that the people can acquire it to destroy mosquitoes. However, neither the locally produced nor imported bacteria appeared yet.

The release of the locally produced stock is reportedly in limbo over a dispute between the Registrar of Pesticides and the Institute on the labeling.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Sri Lanka: 2010 dengue cases

Dengue claims 186 lives in Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 14:16 GMT]

The number of persons died of dengue fever in the country has risen to 186 till August 13 this year while 25,880 dengue cases were reported during the same period.

Dengue fever claimed the lives of 45 in Colombo district (4262 cases), 25 in Gampaha district (3015 cases) and 16 in Jaffna district (2750 cases), a Health Department report said.

The report was released Monday following the launching of National Dengue Control Week (August 16-22) in the country.

72 percent of dengue patients from Colombo district are below the age of 20.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32437

 

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Re: Sri Lanka: 2010 dengue cases

Source: http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/09/06/fea01.asp

Dengue?s human cost

What is the State?s responsibility?:

Around 192 people had died from dengue fever in the first seven and a half months of this year, it was reported. The total number of infected people is over 26,824 and there can be no doubt that the entire population of Sri Lanka is in danger. But there still does not appear to be any visible, practical or successful plan to deal with the spread of this disease. The authorities have not implemented or adopted any effective measures to face this challenge

Dengue has spread to almost all districts. The disease is threatening the entire population of Jaffna North to Matara South and Batticaloa East to Colombo West and Kandy Central. The afflicted victims are those from the rich and the poor...

...Dengue was known to be endemic from early this century but it has only been serologically confirmed since 1962. In 1965, there was a dengue outbreak throughout the country and 51 cases were found resulting in 15 deaths. Then continuously it was found in many parts of the country. The disease was mainly spread in the Western costal belt and later it was found in other suburbs as well. Later a few outbreaks were reported in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973 and 1976. Again the dengue outbreak came to a peak in 1988. Up to 1988, the reported cases of dengue were considered as type one and two as classified by the Sri Lankan Medical Authority. But by 1989, different serological types other than the type one and two were also detected.

The new cases reported were serious in nature (i.e. patients with more dengue haemorrhagic fever were reported) and the number of deaths was significantly higher. In 1988, 20 deaths were figured and 203 patients were also diagnosed.

In 1990, the death toll was 363 and the number of reported cases was 1350. In the year 2009, the total number of cases reported in dengue fever was 35, 007 and the total number of deaths reported was 346.

In the years 2009 and 2010, an outbreak of dengue in Sri Lanka was encountered but it was much worse than on any other occasion reported. The same endangering situation prevails throughout the country. Until now even in the year 2010, the same pathetic situation of dengue is evident all over the country but in more alarming numbers.

First, the reported cases from dengue fever were normal in their makeup but in latter stages it was shown that a much more dangerous version existed. This, it was discovered, was due to genetic mutation...

...WHO considers when a figure of dengue deaths in country goes beyond one percent it becomes an alarming situation. Sri Lanka faced such a situation in 1989 and 1992. In the second half of the year 2009 Sri Lanka experienced the most alarming situation ever before by having 349 deaths, while having around 22,000 infected patients. When Sri Lanka is compared with the regional situation it is now similar to the situation of Indonesia, Bhutan and India.

In the year 1989 the total number of suspected cases of DF/DHF was 203 and the serologically confirmed cases was 87. Out of that the number of deaths was 20 and the case fatality rate was 9.9 percent.

That constituted a vulnerable situation but in the later years a decline was seen. In 1990 the rate was 4 percent and the 1991 was 3 percent. In 1992 2.3 percent and in 1993 it was 0.9 percent.

But from 1994 onwards the deaths increased again. In that particular year the percentage was 1.2 percent and in 1995 it was 2.5. In 1996 it was 4.2 and in 1997 1.7...

 

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Re: Sri Lanka: 2010 dengue cases

Source: http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/01/06/news20.asp

Thursday, 6 January 2011

'Dengue deaths rise in 2009 not due to mistaken treatment'

Disna MUDALIGE

The unexpected rise in the number of deaths reported from dengue in 2009 was not due to mistaken treatments given to patients and this claim was baseless, stressed Health Ministry Resident Consultant Physician Priyankara Jayawardena and Infectious Disease Hospital Physician Ananda Wijewickrama.

Addressing a media conference at the Information Department yesterday Dr Jayawardena said the doctors and hospital staff provide their highest possible service with enormous effort and dedication to treat the dengue patients. The recent claim directed at the treatments given to dengue patients might have hurt them, he mentioned.

About 35,000 patients and 350 deaths were reported from dengue in 2009. In 2010, 34,000 dengue patients were reported, but the number of deaths has decreased to 240. This is a significant decline, and we hope with the formulation of "National Guidelines on Management of Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Adults and Children" this number could be further reduced. A printed version of the guidelines was also launched to disseminate this knowledge to everyone, he added.

"The nature of dengue changes over time and the treatments should also be changed accordingly. All hospital staff including the doctors and nurses islandwide were made aware of the national guidelines based on new knowledge on dengue over the past four months by conducting workshops. Therefore the public should not doubt the treatments provided for dengue fever, nor they should have an uncertain fear to obtain treatments...

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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34,105 Dengue Patients And 246 Dengue Deaths Reported From Sri Lanka Last Year
by Emanthi Marambe January 14, 2011



During last year 34,105 dengue patients were reported from Sri Lanka and there were 246 deaths according to the Epidemiology Unit.Out of the total number of dengue patients reported the highest number of 858 patients were reported from Jaffna District followed by 608 patients from Gampaha in the western province and 584 patients reported from Colombo .

The Highest Death toll which is 58 deaths were reported from Colombo District followed by 34 deaths reported from Gampaha District according to the Epidemiology Unit
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http://www.groundreport.com/Business/34-105-Dengue-Patients-And-246-Deaths-Reported-Fro/2932849