The variety of dengue circumstances in Gujarat elevated in 2024 in opposition to the calendar yr 2023, mentioned a press release by the state well being division on Tuesday. It, nonetheless, added that the positivity fee noticed a lower this yr.
The state authorities added that it had elevated serum pattern testing in giant numbers as a precaution as quickly because the monsoon season ended.
In 2023, 1,49,844 serum samples have been taken for dengue prognosis, out of which 7,088 have been discovered to be constructive for dengue. Subsequently, the seropositivity fee was 4.7 per cent. Nevertheless, throughout the yr 2024, 2,21,358 samples have been taken for dengue prognosis, out of which 7,820 have been discovered to be constructive for dengue, displaying a fee of three.5 per cent
This yr, 1,700 kits of Dengue NS1 sort i.e.1,63,200 exams have been bought by the state authorities for speedy prognosis of dengue and equipped to the diagnostic centres. As well as, 611 Dengue IGM kits (58,656 exams) acquired from the Authorities of India have been allotted to the diagnostic centres, the assertion mentioned.
Three rounds of house-to-house fever surveys, anti-larval actions and publicity work have been carried out as a marketing campaign throughout the months of April, Might and September, masking 86 per cent, 89 per cent and 92 per cent of the inhabitants of the state respectively.
In the course of the monsoon season, 492 vector management groups of two,460 folks carried out a illness survey and intensive pest management operations in delicate areas, the well being division assertion added.
A steady decline in dengue circumstances has been recorded within the state throughout the forty seventh to 51st weeks and there was a major decline in dengue circumstances within the yr 2024 in comparison with the yr 2023 throughout the fiftieth and 51st weeks, the division mentioned.
Additional, the state mentioned that 1,139 specialists within the state have been educated in “Scientific Administration of Dengue”. To know the kind of virus that’s contaminated with dengue within the state, serum samples and mosquitoes have been despatched to BJ Medical Faculty and Gujarat Biotechnology Analysis Centre (GBRC) Gandhinagar for serotype dedication. Utilizing its outcomes, illness prevention and management operations have been deliberate and carried out, the assertion learn.
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