Kristin Nicholson
November 30, 2012
In New Delhi, India, an area that is undergoing rapid and disorderly
urbanization, there have been reports of a mosquito borne disease called dengue
fever. According to the article, this disease was reported in just a handful of
countries in the 1950s, and dengue is now endemic in half the world’s nations. The
disease is life-threatening to a small percentage of those infected and is
accompanied by extreme pain to all that are infected. According to the article,
dengue advances to a life-threatening cascade of immune responses known as
hemorrhagic or shock dengue in about 1 percent of cases. High numbers of cases are being reported among
tourists, which is causing the spread to other areas of the world. According to
the article, health officials in Miami announced a case of locally acquired
dengue infection last month. There are many areas present of standing water in
India that contribute to the epidemic’s growth. The densely populated and
crowded cities due to rapid urbanization are also contributors to this outbreak.
Hospitals are overly full and feverish patients are sharing beds and ailing in
hallways. An Indian doctor that specializes in tropical disease estimated 37
million dengue infections occurring every year in India, and around 227,500
hospitalizations as a result. In order to control the disease, trucks can be
found spewing pesticides against mosquitoes on a regular basis in New Delhi,
India.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/world/asia/alarm-over-indias-dengue-fever-epidemic.html?pagewanted=all
Now this time more than 300 cases of dengue has been estimated in Delhi. Delhi is full of slums. God knows when this slum thing will go clean. see the link
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