Firozabad Administration Release Gambusia Fish In Ponds to Prevent Dengue Outbreak

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dinesh Kumar Premi has said informed that the district officials is releasing 25,000 Gambusia fish in ponds across rural and urban areas adding that around 50 packets of fish seeds acquired from Badaun.

He informed that the fish east about 100 larvae daily.

Around 51 persons died of dengue and viral fever in last two weeks in the district in Uttar Pradesh and more than 100 people are undergoing treatment.

Meanwhile, District Magistrate Chandra Vijay Singh had recently directed health and municipal corporation officials to conduct a door-to-door survey to drain out stagnant water from coolers, pots and other utensils.

Earlier, a mysterious viral fever named 'scrub typhus' has been detected in Assam after it was detected in Western Uttar Pradesh. According to Assam health officials, the health department has ordered to shut down a Covid-19 hospital at Sarusajai in Guwahati temporarily after 29 cases of the newly detected virus found in the hospital. The victim of the virus is Rajpratim Das who is the Superintendent of the hospital, few nurses, health workers, and some other patients are also victims of the virus.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that bacteria 'Orientia tsutsugamushi' is the main cause of the disease. People get infected by it after getting bit by infected larval mites. Another name for bacterial fever is 'Bush typhus'. The symptoms of the disease are like other viral fevers including fever, cold, headache, body aches, rashes, muscle soreness and etc. However, no vaccination is available for the disease.

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