Four test positive for dengue in Dir

TIMERGARA: A total of four persons were tested positive for dengue in Lower Dir district, a doctor said on Friday.

Medical Entomologist Lower Dir Abdul Waris confirmed to The News that so far a total of four persons were tested positive for dengue in the district.

Officials in the Health Department said that larvae were found in Ziarat Talash, Kumbar Maidan and Khwar, Kuz Killay and Baba Ji Muhalla in Timergara.

They added that Adenzai and Khall tehsils were at the high risk for the larvae of mosquito causing dengue.

Those tested positive included Samiuddin 25 from Khema village in Balambat, wife of Wali Haider 30 in Khall, Tariq Ahmad 29 from Kambat and Elma Bibi 16 hailing from Warai in Upper Dir.

Abdul Waris said that a total of 4500 different kinds of mosquitos were found all over the world out of which two kinds of infected insects caused 11 diseases among citizens of Pakistan, including dengue, filarisis, chikungonia, yellow fever, malaria and others.

Meanwhile, district administration and Lower Dir Health Department on Friday decided that all sacrificial animals would be vaccinated at entry points of the district against Congo virus.