more-in The awareness campaigns and grass-roots level sanitation drives seem to have slightly paid off in the district, considering the noticeable decline in the number of dengue cases reported in the district over the last one week, even as the number of fever cases is still on the rise. The district, which was just behind Thiruvananthapuram and Palakkad over the last one month in the highest number of dengue cases reported, has registered 513 suspected and 101 confirmed dengue cases in the last one week, over 100 less than the previous week. “We have so many dengue cases being reported. But not many are confirmed. Though the situation is much under control, it’s not yet time to relax,” District Medical Officer in-charge Asha Devi said. The steep rise in the number of dengue cases reported from areas like Koorachundu and Nanmanda earlier in June had created a state of panic in the district. However, the alarm resulted in intense mosquito eradication activities across the district. Though a bit late, the local bodies stepped up their act and took up cleaning activities. Meanwhile, the District Medical Office had also issued a warning against Zika which is spread by Aedes aegypti, the same breed of mosquito that spreads dengue. Now the Health Department has diverted its focus to malaria, another mosquito-borne disease which is slowly on the rise. Since the first malaria case of the season was reported on July 11, 12 cases have been reported so far.

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