Sri Lanka: 2020 Dengue

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Source: https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/01/14/600-dengue-patients-reported-in-2020/

600 dengue patients reported in 2020
Written by Staff Writer 14 Jan, 2020 | 3:22 pm

Colombo (News 1st): The Health Ministry instituted legal action against 138 State Institutions in 2019 for maintaining an environment conducive for dengue mosquito breeding. The National Dengue Control Unit said in 2019 alone 2068 state institutions were inspected and 168 were considered to have been conducive for dengue mosquito breeding.

The National Dengue Control Unit went on to say during the said period 1494 schools were inspected and 259 were found to have dengue breeding sites. In 2019, the Ministry of Health carried out 12 Special Dengue Control programs and inspected a total of 652,897 premises across the country...

 

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Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/rise-dengue-due-changing-weather-pattern

Rise in dengue due to changing weather pattern
Report from Government of Sri Lanka
Published on 19 Jan 2020 — View Original

The rise in the number of dengue patients in the country, especially during the past two months of 2019 is due mainly to the previously latent serotype 3 (DENV3) becoming active and to the changing weather patterns bringing intermittent rain from August, Dr. Anura Jayasekera, Director, National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU), said.

Dengue fever (DF) and the more severe Dengue Haemorrhagic fever (DHF), is caused by one or more of the four serotypes of dengue viruses (DENV1, DENV2, DENV3 & DENV4) which had been co-circulating within the country, since the early 1990s. However, from time to time a previously latent serotype becomes dominant, driving the disease to epidemic proportions as in the year 2017, which recorded the highest dengue incidence so far, with 186,101 cases reported throughout the island. It was caused by serotype2 (DENV2).

According to the Epidemiology Unit’s latest update, 104,501 cases were reported during the period January 1 to December 31, 2019 double the 51,659 cases reported during the corresponding period of the previous year. “In Sri Lanka we have begun to see a pattern of the numbers rising and falling during alternate years. However, the main concern is the growing numbers over the years,” he said. Dengue patients are not only being reported from all districts of the country, the number of dengue incidences had been showing an upward trend during the last 10 years...

 

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Source: https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/01/22/3000-dengue-cases-so-far-this-year/
3000 dengue cases so far this year
Written by Staff Writer 22 Jan, 2020 | 10:53 am

Colombo (News 1st) – The Ministry of Health notes that there have been over 3000 confirmed Dengue cases reported so far this year.

Director of the National Dengue Eradication Unit, Specialist Dr. Aruna Jayasekara noted that this figure is lower than the figure which was reported in January 2019...

 

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Source: https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/02/08/over-10000-dengue-patients-in-january/

Over 10,000 dengue patients in January
Written by Staff Writer 08 Feb, 2020 | 2:22 pm

COLOMBO (News 1st):- In a new report published by the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health, 10089 people have been identified as dengue patients within the past month...