Allaying fears about rising cases of dengue and chikungunya, Health and Civic officials on Tuesday asserted both the viral fevers were under control and no dengue deaths had been reported this year in Karnataka.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which is facing difficulties in procuring an adequate amount of biolarvicide to combat the threat of rising cases of dengue, got a breather from the Delhi High Court on Monday as it dismissed a petition against the civic body

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With three dengue cases reported in the taluk concerns over outbreak of chikungunya and dengue fever have resurfaced bringing back painful memories of the previous year when almost all the families suffered from either chikungunya or dengue and hospitals were crowded.

Private hospitals in the City are required to send patients' blood samples to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) or Public Health Institute (PHI) for confirming dengue and chikungunya cases even if they had a laboratory of their own, said V Ashok, BBMP's Additional Commissioner (Health).

For Malaria, an ounce of prevention is worth hundreds of pounds of cure, says Dr NADIA RANGEL PINTO
The disease that is foremost in our minds during the monsoon is the parasitic disease Malaria. It is one of the oldest diseases, and transmitted by a familiar vector

IMPHAL, July 18

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