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Activities of National Dengue Control Programme
- Regular surveillance
(a) Active.
(b) Passive.
Rapid Fever Survey. - Collection and Examination of Blood Smears for Malaria.
- Collection of 5% Serum Samples of Dengue suspected cases for Viral isolation.
- Fogging.
- Entomological Survey for search of Dengue Vector i.e. Aedes Aegypti.
- Container survey: House Index (H.I.), Brautaeu’s Index (B.I.)
- Workshop for all district level officers regarding Dengue prevention and control.
- Arrangement for plate–late count and treatment of dengue cases in Govt. Institutions.
- Guidelines issued to all District level officers.
- Health Education to community through different medias.
- Visits of Health authorities from various levels.
Dengue Situation
| Year | No. of Outbreaks | Total | Serum samples | ||
| Attack | Deaths | Sent to NIV | Dengue Positive | ||
| 2001–2002 | 23 | 2917 | 5 | 237 | 56 |
| 2002–2003 | 137 | 2984 | 19 | 1216 | 409 |
| 2003–2004 | 301 | 4583 | 43 | 3177 | 804 |
| 2004–2005 | 432 | 3186 | 22 | 2136 | 855 |
| 2005–2006 | 267 | 21390 | 56 | 1534 | 396 |
| 2006–2007 | 190 | 11053 | 27 | 1163 | 609 |
| 2007–2008 | 160 | 4219 | 25 | 1439 | 620 |
| 2008–09 up to 25/6/08 | 10 | 421 | 0 | 349 | 88 |
(NIV – National Institute of Virology, Pune)
