YOUR report of three siblings who lost their parents to dengue, “Dengue leaves three orphaned in two days” (Jan 23) refers. The number of dengue fever cases and deaths fluctuates despite all the control measures that are supposed to be in place.
The report quoted the state health committee chairman saying that the family could not have caught the infection from that area. Is that statement really relevant? Two adults of productive age with school-going children have died and one child could have easily joined them. The movement of people cannot make it possible to curb the spread. Despite the limited distance that the Aedes mosquito can fly, we forget that it can also hitch a ride in a car from an infected area to another and breed there until the first case is detected. All the fogging being done in “affected” areas may make surviving mosquitoes migrate to other areas.
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