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Woman's death in A.P. due to dengue?

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD SEPT. 5. The Minister for Medical, Health and Family Welfare, N. Janardhan Reddy, today said that there was one case of death, possibly due to dengue, of a 29-year-old woman of Gaddi Annaram municipality, but it was yet to be finally confirmed.

He said even though the report from the Mumbai-based Ranbaxy Clinical Reference Laboratory on the blood sample of the woman had come positive, further samples had been sent to the Hyderabad-based Veterinary Biological Research Institute for final confirmation. Detailing the steps being taken by the Government to tackle possible spread of dengue fever, Dr. Reddy said that the health and municipal authorities had been alerted to increase surveillance in the area.

Also spraying of Pyrethium and fogging had been done in a radius of 50 houses from the victim's house as a precautionary measure.

He said that intensive search was being carried out to identify the mosquitoes' breeding area and neutralise it.

Expressing alarm at the possibility of dengue surfacing in the State, the Minister said that till now Andhra Pradesh had been free of this menace, which is spread by the ``Aedes Aegypti'' mosquito. The last confirmed case of dengue was from Chittoor-Karnataka border in 1993 and if the present case was confirmed it would be the first case from the heart of the State, he added.

This ``rare'' mosquito comes out only during daytime and is relatively larger than the normal mosquito in size, being termed ``tiger mosquito'' in common parlance.

The symptoms of the disease are sudden high fever in the range of 103 to 105 degrees Fahrenheit, severe aches in the forehead and body, joint pains and pain behind the eye sockets, and nausea.

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