Morung Express News
September 16
KOHIMA: In a wake of continuous death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, the State’s Health Department has taken some precautionary measures.
Additional Director Health Service (HOD), Dr. V. Sekhose said that DDT spraying was done in selected areas and its potency should last for the coming few months of the peak malaria season
In selected areas, in Dimapur, the department have undertaken fogging spray with insecticide and assured that they were ready to repeat the same exercise in case of an epidemic outbreak.
Along with Dimapur Municipal, the department has intensified anti-larval spray with chemical and it would continue to do so.
“We have set free our Larvivorous fishes in many water bodies of the town in the hope that they will reduce the mosquito population, “Dr. Sekhose stated in a release made available to The Morung Express.
Saying that the department always insist that “Mosquito Control is everyone’s concern,” the department said “Let us therefore be responsible so that we do not allow mosquito to breed in our neighbourhood, use personal protection, consult medical professionals and take chloroquine whenever we have fever and cooperate with field workers so that we may reduce the menace of Mosquito related diseases like Malaria, Japanese Encephalitis, Dengue, filaria, Kala-azar”, Dr Sekhose stated.
It may be recalled that Japanese Encephalitis is a mosquito borne disease caused by a group of arbovirus and transmitted by the bite of culex mosquitoes. It is a zoonotic disease.
The disease is transmitted to man by the bite of the infected Mosquito and man is the “dead end” host, hence man to man transmission has not been recorded so far, according to medical information.
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