Fever wreaks havoc in major cities

Fever outbreak together with increasing incidence of dengue and chikungunya created a health crisis in the country’s major cities and their outskirts since the advent of monsoon.
The National Health Crisis Management Centre reported at least 564 dengue cases in the capital in first 11 days of the current month.
Since April, the capital has already been in panic of endemic chikungunya.
Dengue outbreak raised fresh concern in the port city of Chittagong while viral fever wreaked havoc in the cities of Rajshahi and Sylhet, said health officials.
They said that they received sporadic complains of chikungunya incidence from the cities of Chittagong and Sylhet.
People in Comilla, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Barguna, Bogra, Madaripur , Thakugraon and a number of other districts concerned over fever outbreaks inquired about chikungunya but the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research said there was no confirmed chikungunya cases in these districts.
IEDCR confirmed that 2,028 people suffered from chikungunya in the capital alone between April and June.
Chittagong civil surgeon Azizur Rahman Siddique told New Age on Tuesday that there has been widespread dengue incidence in the port city since monsoon set in.
On Monday, he said, the first ‘suspected’ chikungunya case had been identified in the port city.
Aziz said that the IEDCR chikungunya control room had been informed about the case Tuesday.
The confirmation of the first case in the port city awaits diagnosis by the IEDCR, he said.
Rajshahi deputy civil surgeon Farzana Haque said the city was passing through a viral fever scare.
No dengue or chikungunya case was identified in Rajshahi, she said.
But viral fever made life in the northern city unbearable, she said.
Sylhet deputy civil surgeon Abul Kalam 
Azad said a staff at the civil surgeon’s office had been clinically identified to be infected with chikungunya.
But there has been no confirmed cases of chikungunya and dengue in Sylhet, he said.
Azad also said that a massive number of people were suffering from viral fever in the Sylhet City.
He also said that people in Sylhet were simply scared of chikungunya.
Khulna civil surgeon ASM Abdur Razzaq said the southern port city was still free from dengue and chikungunya.
He, however, said that the incidence of seasonal flu fever was on the rise in the port city since the advent of monsoon. 

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