Delhi: Dengue 2011

[Ronan Kelly]

Delhi gets its first 2 dengue cases
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, March 10, 2011 Email to Author

First Published: 23:21 IST(10/3/2011)
Last Updated: 23:22 IST(10/3/2011)

Dengue has already hit the Capital, with two people, including a doctor, having tested positive at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). While the MCD is still in the process of purchasing anti-larvicides to control the spread of vector-borne diseases, the two cases, admitted in AIIM S, tested positive for the disease on Tuesday, suggesting that dengue may have hit the Capital this year way earlier than expected.

Last year, the first dengue case was reported in June, and 6,229 people had contracted the disease, which led to eight deaths.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Delhi: Dengue 2011

Fresh cases of dengue: Disease may have been contracted last year
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, March 12, 2011 Email to Author

First Published: 00:59 IST(12/3/2011)
Last Updated: 01:00 IST(12/3/2011)Share more...0 Comments Email print

With two people, including a doctor, testing positive for dengue, the Capital reported the season?s first cases of the vector-borne disease. However, the MCD suspects that the two may have contracted the disease last season. ?Though two confirmed dengue cases have been reported from the All India In stitute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) AIIMS, there are chances they might be old,? said Dr VK Monga, chairperson, public health committee, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

?A person can test positive for dengue even two months after suffering from the disease. In a day or two it will be clear,?
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Delhi: Dengue 2011

Delhi reports year's first dengue case

2011-03-21 16:30:00

New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The national capital's first case of dengue of the year has been reported from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and the country's premier medical institute has been blamed by the civic corporation for failing to keep a mosquito-free campus.

According to a civic official Monday, a doctor at the institute has tested positive for dengue, becoming the first case of the vector-borne disease in Delhi this year.

Anoop Singh, a post-graduate student of the AIIMS, tested positive for dengue after he was admitted in the hospital March 3 when he complained of fever along with headache and pain.

'The student contracted the disease during his stay in the doctors' hostel in the AIIMS.

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