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  • Three children die of dengue in UP village

    By PTI

    SHAMLI: Three children of a family died of dengue and several others fell ill following a breakout of the fever in the district here.

    Uzeba (9), Saifullah (4), and Nargis (6) of Odri village in Jhinjhana police station area succumbed to the fever.

    They were shifted to a hospital in Rohtak district in Haryana.

    All these deaths occurred within a span of last three days.

    According to Novjit Bedi, Jhinjhna community health centre in-charge, a medical team has been sent to the village for treatment of the affected.

    More than a dozen people were reported sick with the dengue in the village.

    Former Block Pramukh Aslam said he has informed the district Chief Medical Officer about the spreading of the fever in the village.

  • Dengue outbreak: Firozabad administration releasing Gambusia fish that eat mosquito larvae in ponds

    By PTI

    FIROZABAD: Battling a deadly outbreak of dengue and viral fever that has claimed 51 lives so far, the Firozabad district administration is releasing about 25,000 mosquitofish that eat larvae of dengue-breeding mosquitoes in ponds to check the spread of the disease, a senior district official said on Monday.

    District health officials have started releasing the fish, generically known as Gambusia, in ponds in urban as well as rural areas of the district, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dinesh Kumar Premi told PTI.

    He said 50 packets of fish seeds have been acquired from Badaun to start with.

    Premi said the district administration is going with the experiment having seen its success earlier in Bareilly and Baduan districts.

    The CMO said that a Gambusia fish eats about 100 larvae daily.

    The measure will also be effective against malaria, he added.

    Dengue and viral fever have claimed 51 lives in over a fortnight in the district in Uttar Pradesh.

    Hundreds of people are also undergoing treatment for the diseases.

    District Magistrate Chandra Vijay Singh had recently directed health and municipal corporation officials to conduct a door-to-door survey to drain out stagnant water from coolers, pots and other utensils.

  • Infant among 7 children die of dengue in Mathura: Officials

    Besides the children, more than 40 adults were found suffering from fever in the village.