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Singapore said it is fighting a dengue "emergency" with cases shooting to over 11,000 in the country. The country had reported over 5,000 dengue cases last year.

Singapore hit with dengue emergency: How aedes mosquitoes infect humans

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has issued a notice to 15 pharmaceutical companies for failing to manufacture Paracetamol despite having licenses. The most commonly prescribed medicine for coronavirus patients has disappeared from many pharmacies and is reportedly being sold in the black market, reported DAWN.

Pak's drug regulatory authority issues notice to pharmaceutical firms for failing to produce Paracetamol

Pakistan reported its first dengue case in 1994. Eleven years later the first dengue epidemic struck. Since then, the disease has become endemic in Pakistan. Three provinces have become breeding grounds for the outbreaks.

Pakistan: Dengue outbreaks reported in Punjab, Khyber-Pankhtunkwa

The Indian government has dispatched high-level teams to nine states and union territories with significant dengue caseloads to assist them in public health efforts to prevent and manage the disease, a press release issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Wednesday.

Dengue outbreak in India: Govt sends central teams to 9 states, union territories

Six additional persons in India's Kanpur tested positive for the Zika virus, bringing the total number of cases in the district to ten. According to authorities, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the health department to maintain careful monitoring to prevent the disease from spreading.

Zika virus in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh: Number of cases climbs to 10

The East Delhi Municipal Corporation has intensified its drive to combat dengue, and a new awareness campaign via radio stations will be set in motion from Monday, officials said.

EDMC anti-dengue campaign via radio stations to start from tomorrow: Official

India's former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was diagnosed with dengue at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), in New Delhi. The hospital said that his condition was improving.

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh diagnosed with dengue, health improving

Hospitals in Pakistan's Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces are refusing to take in more dengue virus patients as they are running out of beds, with cases surging across the country, Geo TV reported.

Pakistan hospitals run out of beds on dengue surge

At least 124 cases of dengue have been reported in the national capital this year, according to a civic report released on Monday. The number of dengue cases for the January 1-September 4 period is also the highest this year since 2018 when the count had stood at 137 in the same duration.

Dengue cases spiked in India's capital in August, says report

As many as 41 per cent of surveyed Delhi households say that they have one or more members who are currently down with flu-like symptoms. The findings of the survey by Local Circles also indicate that 22 per cent of Delhi households are fully impacted with it, which means all members are having such symptoms while 19 per cent have only 1 member so far and it is likely that more members may develop symptoms in the days to come.

41% households in Delhi report flu-like symptoms: Survey

Already battered by a worsening coronavirus crisis, Bangladesh now faces a sharp spike in dengue cases. In the month of July alone, 1,920 cases have been reported, a 600 per cent jump from June when 272 cases were reported.

Struggling with coronavirus, Bangladesh faces dengue threat

Will mosquitoes soon lose their ability to transmit dengue? Lab-grown mosquitoes have successfully targeted the dengue-carrying mosquitoes and blocked their ability to pass on dengue

Gravitas: Lab-grown mosquitoes successfully fight dengue

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was diagnosed with dengue on Thursday, a day after testing positive for COVID-19. However, his health condition is stable, a top official from the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital, in which Sisodia is admitted, informed.

Admitted to hospital for COVID-19, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia also diagnosed with dengue

The latest contraption authorities in Singapore have devised a new way to combat a record outbreak of the tropical disease dengue -- lab-reared male mosquitoes are being released outside housing blocks.

Singapore is battling record dengue outbreak with lab-bred mosquitoes

From the high balcony of a Singapore public housing block, an environment official steadies his mosquito launcher, the latest contraption authorities have devised to combat a record outbreak of the tropical disease dengue.

Singapore battles record dengue outbreak with more mosquitoes

A plan to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes into US' Florida Keys in 2021 and 2022 has received final approval from local authorities. This is being done under a pilot project -- designed to test if a genetically modified mosquito is a viable alternative to spraying insecticides to control the Aedes aegypti (to be precise, to test if these genetically modified mosquitoes can kill the disease causing ones.

Millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in US for pilot project

Singapore was one of the countries which was hit by the re-emerging cases of coronavirus in the last month. As the country struggled to bring the coronavirus cases under control, it has been hit by an outbreak of dengue -- and it is the worst outbreak the country has ever faced.

Singapore faces the worst dengue outbreak in its history; records more than 1,400 cases in a week

At a time when countries across the globe are pushing their efforts to find a vaccine to treat novel coronavirus, an institute in US is experimenting with the saliva of mosquitoes to build a vaccine that can help in protecting against all the pathogens that insects transmit into humans.

US institute develops vaccine from mosquito spit that could prevent next epidemic

The Latin American region has been hit by a severe dengue outbreak, with Peru reporting the latest victims of this pestilence. Dengue has claimed 12 lives in Peru and around 5,400 cases have been reported across the nation.

Dengue outbreak in Latin America as 12 die in Peru

A severe dengue outbreak has claimed the lives of at least 120 people and affected over 87,000 others across 11 districts in Sri Lanka, health officials said here on Monday.

Dengue kills 120 in Sri Lanka, affects over 87,000 others

Over 49,000 people have been tested positive for dengue in Pakistan, setting a new record of the infection in the country. The surge in the number of cases was reported in the last 15 days.

Pakistan: Dengue outbreak, 49,000 cases registered

Around 100 patients suffering from dengue fever visit hospitals across Kathmandu on an average daily, authorities have said. "It is an unexpected outbreak following the previous one.

Nepal: Dengue patients continue to visit hospitals across Kathmandu

A total of 615 dengue cases have been reported in the city this year till October 17. District Malaria Officer, Patna, informed that out of total 1121 samples, 615 have been tested positive for dengue.

Over 600 dengue cases reported in Patna

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