The Health Ministry said yesterday a total of 7,948 dengue cases with 69 deaths had been reported so far this year.

MUMBAI: In what is being labelled as the first dengue death of the season, a 46-year-old Navi Mumbai resident died of complications arising out of the mosquito-borne disease at Jaslok Hospital on Wednesday.

Jayashree Jagdish Gadi was transferred from BARC Hospital in Anushakti Nagar to Jaslok Hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday.

3 cases reported from the coastal Mukkola-Vinzhinjam area

Of the 10,350 dengue cases reported in the island during the past six months, 60 deaths have been reported.

Sri Lanka police environment division director Quintus Raymond says that 441 police environment units are active island wide to fight dengue threat.

He said the police units will inspect the places to discover mosquito breeding grounds and take legal action against the offenders.

Sri Lanka Ministry of Health has declared a National Mosquito Prevention Week from June 20 to 26 and the acting I

French drugs group Sanofi said that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.

Nine cases of dengue fever have been reported in Thodupuzha.
KATTAPPANA: A meeting was held at the district collectorate, Painavu, on Tuesday to review the steps taken to prevent the spread of viral diseases during the monsoon season.

District Collector M.C.

Setting off early alarm bells, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday announced that it had detected breeding of dengue causing aedes mosquito at 33 areas in the Capital, including extensive breeding in the residential flats of the Delhi Police.

Apart from the Delhi Police flats and police stations, the MCD has identified several other local bodies and departments as sensitive for mosq

Some 905 cases of dengue with eight deaths have been reported in the city since January, the Colombo Municipality said yesterday.

It said these figures were bound to rise further because of the heavy rains in some parts of the country.

Colombo Municipality Chief Medical Officer Pradeep Kariyawasam said 222 cases of dengue with one death were reported this month.