The district health department of Dehradun reported 11 new cases of dengue on Friday. With them the total number of dengue patients in Dehradun since the outbreak of the disease has risen to 659.
The district vector borne diseases officer Subhash Joshi said that 634 patients are the residents of Dehradun while 25 are natives of other districts. He added that the disease has so far affected 421 males while 238 females have so far been affected by the disease in Dehradun. Joshi said that more than two dozen teams of health department are working in anti dengue activities. He informed that the students of medical colleges are also helping in spread of the disease.
The symptoms of Dengue are persistently high fever, rashes, headache and pain in the joints. In the acute cases the platelets number decrease drastically which could prove fatal for the patient.
