Ahmedabad: This year may be one of the worst for the city with the increasing number of cases of dengue fever and chikungunya in Ahmedabad.
City officials are worried whether there will be a repeat of the 2019 dengue fever outbreak along with a large surge in the case of Chikungunya when compared to the first witnessed in 2006.
TOI compiled details from at least two written statements submitted by AMC before 2006.
Someone can see a dramatic leap in the case of dengue and chikungunya fever but the same dramatic decline in the case of malaria and falciparum in the city.
DERIESTIONS Claiming how malaria cases, spread by women’s anopheles mosquitoes, since 2012 have experienced a dramatic decline – from 15,904 cases to 618 in 2020.
On the other hand, the case of Chikungunya has increased from 2006 to 923 in 2008.
Similar cases with fever Bloody who saw up from 146 cases in 2006 to 1,962 to October this year.
Dengue and chikungunya spread through Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes.
“We have seen a consistent decline in malaria cases since 2010 when a strategy to deal with Mosquitoes Anopheles and Plasmodium parasites changed.
In the dengue and chikungunya we deal with viruses transmitted through Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes,” said a senior AMC health official.
The former AMC officer and an entomology said that the period of pregnancy from the Plasmodium Malaria parasite was 10 to 12 days while in the case of dengue and chikungunya fever, the period of pregnancy was 3 to 7 days a lot less.