HealthCases rose from 2,025 at the end of June to 12,676 by 5 October and 21 people have died this year; an IEDCR team found mosquitoes breeding at the base of betel nut and coconut trees and in orchard drains in Pirojpur.
HealthExecutive magistrates of Dhaka North City Corporation fined households Tk 177,500 in 28 cases after finding Aedes mosquito larvae in Mirpur, Rupnagar, Pallabi, Agargaon, Uttara, Nikunja and Baridhara.
HealthDengue deaths this year have reached 239 and 77,672 people have been treated in hospital; entomologist Professor Kabirul Bashar's forecasting model points to a worse October.
With measles patients still on the wards, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital has no separate dengue ward; more than 70 children fill 30 dengue beds. A paediatrician says a fever alone is no cause for panic, but danger signs are.
Dirty grounds and blocked drains at many Dhaka schools and colleges are breeding Aedes mosquitoes, and the district administration has ordered head-led 'Clean School Teams'.
HealthLike dengue, Zika is carried by Aedes mosquitoes, but it can also pass through sex and linger in semen for weeks or months after recovery; because of the risk of microcephaly, infected men are advised to take precautions for at least three months.
HealthDhaka's additional divisional commissioner Md Azmul Haque said dengue mosquitoes now bite day and night and breed in dirty water too; the district council will run clean-ups across the district for three months.
For many dengue patients in Dhaka the heaviest cost is not medicine but the fruit and drinks they are told to consume, though doctors say cheaper alternatives work just as well.
Daily lifeDuring the 2019 dengue outbreak, a recipe for a homemade mosquito cream of neem oil, glycerine and wax spread online. There is no evidence such a mix protects against dengue; WHO advises registered repellents and removing breeding sites.
Researchers at Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University have used DNA barcoding to pinpoint the Aedes species that carry the dengue virus.
