Friday, November 9, 2012

Dengue Fever in India Frightens Government Officials


The outbreak of dengue fever in India is nurturing a growing sense of fright even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge the scope of a quandary that experts say is intimidating hundreds of millions of people, not just in India but around the world. India has become the focal point for a mosquito-borne plague that is sweeping the globe. Reported in just a handful of countries in the 1950s, dengue is now endemic in half the world’s nations. The tropical disease, though life-threatening for a little portion of those infected, can be tremendously painful. In India’s capital, where areas of standing water supply to the epidemic’s growth, hospitals are swarming. Officials say that 30,002 people in India had been sickened with dengue fever through October, a 59 percent jump from the 18,860 recorded for all of 2011. But the real number of Indians who get dengue fever once a year is in the millions. Neighboring Sri Lanka, for instance, reported nearly three times as many dengue cases as India through August, according to the World Health Organization, even though India’s population is 60 times larger than Sri Lanka.

This opposes a major problem. It is definitely something that I think should be one of the main priorities of India to help get this virus controlled. In my opinion, Americans can go overseas and help them out. Like supplying them with tools and technology to get a final cure for this terrible disease. It needs to be acknowledged that these people are dying at a rapid pace. (If you do more research on this, you will find that out.)

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