Dengue Fever Southern India

[Ocean]

India faces upsurge in deadly dengue fever


There have been 12,500 cases since September, compared with 2,859 in the same period last year, and the virus has killed 77 people in southern India this year compared with 33 last year.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/india-faces-upsurge-in-deadly-dengue-fever

I wonder if this huge increase of dengue fever might have a connection to the red rain which freaked people out in July 2012 in the southern state of Kerala

 

[Laura]

Dunno. I had Dengue in 1980, nearly died and it is truly a sickness from hell. Took months to fully recover. I don't think that having it confers immunity, either.

 

[Ocean]

Gosh Laura that must have been awful.
I didn't know much about Dengue Fever but after reading about it on Wikipedia it really sounds pretty nasty.
Particularly horrendous is the 'bone breaking pain' described. Terrible!


http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever

Dengue fever is an infection caused by the dengue virus. Mosquitoes transmit (or spread) the dengue virus. Dengue fever is also known as "break-bone fever" or "bone-break fever", because it can cause people to have pain so bad that they feel like their bones are breaking. Some of the symptoms of dengue fever are fever; headache; a skin rash that looks like measles; and pain in the muscles and joints. In a few people, dengue fever can turn into one of two forms that are life-threatening. The first is dengue hemorrhagic fever, which causes bleeding, leaking blood vessels (tubes which carry blood), and low levels of blood platelets (which cause the blood to clot). The second is dengue shock syndrome, which causes dangerously low blood pressure.
There are four different types of the dengue virus. Once a person has been infected with one type of the virus, he usually is protected from that type for the rest of his life. However, he will only be protected against the other three types of the virus for a short time. If he later gets one of those three types of the virus, he will be more likely to have serious problems.

 

[Laura]

Looks like I was wrong, I am protected, at least from the nasty one I had. It came over from Central America in a mosquito after a week of a strong southwest wind that blew the Gulf up over the shores onto the roads. It was really weird weather and very early for mosquitoes even in Florida. But they were thick and nasty.

 

[seek10]

India faces upsurge in deadly dengue fever


There have been 12,500 cases since September, compared with 2,859 in the same period last year, and the virus has killed 77 people in southern India this year compared with 33 last year.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/india-faces-upsurge-in-deadly-dengue-fever

I wonder if this huge increase of dengue fever might have a connection to the red rain which freaked people out in July 2012 in the southern state of Kerala

India suffered from dengue fever very often, increased mostly recent years. Main issue is poor sanitary conditions, unhealthy muddy roads in rainy season facilitates thriving of mosquito. I know some of my distant relatives died from that fever.