ISLAMABAD, Dec 27 (APP):The number of d
engue cases has surpassed 15,060 at Punjab in the current year with four new cases reported during the last 24 hours in the provincial capital.
Secretary Punjab Health Department, Ali Jan Khan told a private news channel that Rawalpindi has so far reported 2,654 d
engue cases in the current year. As many as 16 patients of d
engue fever were currently admitted to hospitals of the province, he added.
D
engue virus is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in recent years around the world. D
engue virus is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and, to a lesser extent, Ae. albopictus.
