Of late the fevers which are causing a havoc are Dengue Fevers and Chickungunya Fevers. This is the right season, as rains are plenty and the mosquitos could breed well as there are plenty of water pools every where. The nations capital, Delhi has been seeing a upsurge presently with Chickungunya fevers. About 10 deaths have occurred and roughly 1100 case's recorded. Both are virus fevers transmitted by Adeus Mosquitos. Dengue fever has 4 variants of which Type 2 is most dangerous .
But coming to reality, l personally feel there numbers are more as many cases are not accounted. In routine practice, we are screening only for Type 2 virus for Dengue fevers. Most of the diagnostic kits available in the market screen only for type 2 virus. What about the people who are actually suffering from 1 , 3 , 4 virus infections? We label them negative for Dengue fever if the patient is negative for…
