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NIZAMABAD, Oct. 20: North Telangana is reeling from dengue fever: the combined death toll in Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Adilabad and Warangal districts has reached 100.

Though the disease has been claiming many in the last two months, the medical and health officials and Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP) authorities have failed to rein it in.

Corpn says there is no need to create panic
ON a day when a reputed private hospital warned about the likely outbreak of dengue in the city, Chennai Corporation officials criticised the hospital, saying that there was no need to create panic.

Drug administrators from the Directorate of Health Services with the support of various NGOs and voluntary organisations will fan out door-to-door across Goa to administer filaria tablets in an effort to meet the target of wiping out the disease completely by 2010 from the face of the State.

After a year, dengue has staged a comeback in a big way in the city. Though the district health authorities have no information in this regard, but seven patients suffering from dengue have been rushed to the DMC at Ludhiana.

The late monsoon has left behind a severe attack of dengue in the Capital, particularly in the Central Delhi and Civil Lines.

In all the 24 dengue-affected areas of State capital malaria office and Bhopal Municipal Corporation are jointly emitting smoke by fogging machine and killing the mosquitoes. This drive was started on October 9.

The Andhra Pradesh government faces its toughest task yet since the floods as it grapples with threats of outbreak of post-flood epidemics. Krishna, Kurnool, Guntur, Kadapa and Mahabubnagar districts, which were ravaged by the floods and remained underwater for six days, now face the possibility of the outbreak of cholera, malaria, diarrhoea and even plague is being feared.