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Dengue Awareness

The document discusses dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne illness caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that has impacted many people in Pakistan over the last 3-4 years. It describes the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of dengue fever, noting the mosquito breeds in stagnant water and bites primarily during the day, making it important to remove sources of standing water and protect from mosquito bites. The government of Punjab has worked to fight the disease but development of a vaccine remains a challenge.

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Dengue Awareness

The document discusses dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne illness caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that has impacted many people in Pakistan over the last 3-4 years. It describes the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of dengue fever, noting the mosquito breeds in stagnant water and bites primarily during the day, making it important to remove sources of standing water and protect from mosquito bites. The government of Punjab has worked to fight the disease but development of a vaccine remains a challenge.

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Dengue Awareness

Dengue Fever
Dengue (pronounced as DENgee) fever is a painful, debilitating
mosquito-borne disease caused by any one of four closely related
Dengue viruses.

Each year, an estimated 100 million cases of Dengue fever occur


worldwide.

Dengue fever (also known as break-bone fever) spreading


mosquito has challenged Punjab Government in the last 3 to 4
years. Government of Punjab has spent huge funds to fight
against the killer mosquito.
It has affected thousands of people all over Pakistan in last 3 to 4
years.

Dengue - The Killer Mosquito


Aedes– Aegypti: Dengue Mosquito
The Killer Mosquito
. Dengue (a close shot of the killer mosquito)
Dengue - The Killer Mosquito
Kill Dengue, Kill Dengue!!!
The mosquito can be recognized by white markings on legs and a
marking in the form of a lyre on the thorax. The mosquito originated in
Africa but is now found in tropical and subtropical regions throughout
the world. [Please refer to slide 3 for illustration of Dengue Mosquito]
Dengue - The Killer Mosquito
Breeding Places
Barrels, open sewerage holes, drums, jars, pots,
buckets, flower vases, plant-pots, tanks, discarded
bottles, tins, tyres, stagnant water, tree holes, palm
fronds and a lot more places where rain water is
stored.

Keep your environment clean from


mosquitoes.
Important note: The mosquito that causes Dengue fever,
bites during the day, particularly in the early morning and in the
evening.
Dengue - The Killer Mosquito
Habitate of adies agypti
Garbage tank with empty bottles
Old tyres and TWC
Tree holes
Tree Holes
Flowers pots
Ornamental plants like mini plants
Empty paint buckets and tin packs
Discarded old furnitures
Air Condition
Open or broken septic tank
Broken water sewerage
Old toys and plastic utensils
Water fountains
Causes of breeding places of ades agypti

• More and more urbanization.


• Poor sewerage and drainage system
• Poor water supply system in cities and
leakage of water.
• Poor waste management and its disposal
• Storage of empty bottles, old tyres and
plastic toys on roof.
• Standing and uncover water in bathrooms
and kitchen in pitchers or other utensils.
• Standing water in ornamental plants
Transmission of the disease
• Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the
bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes.
• Mosquitoes generally acquire the virus while feeding on
the blood of an infected person.
• After virus incubation for eight to 10 days, an infected
mosquito is capable, during probing and blood feeding,
of transmitting the virus for the rest of its life.
• Infected female mosquitoes may also transmit the virus
to their offspring by transovarial (via the eggs)
transmission, but the role of this in sustaining
transmission of the virus to humans has not yet been
defined
Signs and symptoms of the Disease

• Dengue fever is a severe, flu-like illness that


affects infants, young children and adults, but
seldom causes death.
• The clinical features of dengue fever vary
according to the age of the patient.
• Infants and young children may have a fever
with rash. Older children and adults may have
either a mild fever or the classical incapacitating
disease with abrupt onset and high fever, severe
headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and
joint pains, and rash.
Treatment of the dengue fever

• There is no specific treatment for dengue


fever.
• Maintenance of the patient's circulating
fluid volume is the central feature of DHF
care.
• There is no vaccine to protect against
dengue. Although progress is underway,
developing a vaccine against the disease .
• The main problem is that so far as in no
animal dengue symptoms appear.
Prevention and Control
• At present, the only method of controlling or
preventing dengue virus transmission is to
combat the vector mosquitoes.
• In Asia and the Americas, Aedes aegypti breeds
primarily in man-made containers like
earthenware jars, metal drums and concrete
cisterns used for domestic water storage, as well
as discarded plastic food containers, used
automobile tyres and other items that collect
rainwater.
• In Africa the mosquito also breeds extensively in
natural habitats such as tree holes, and leaves
that gather to form "cups" and catch water.
Curative Measures

• Only paracetamol or panadol tablets and


syrup.
• Aspirine/brufen not recommended.
• Take plenty of water and juices.
• Dextron in case of leakage of plasma in
DHF.
• Nursing of patients.
• Patients usually recover after 5 to 7 days.

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