Dengue claims woman’s life in Karachi

KARACHI: People in Karachi are not having any respite from the dengue fever despite the weather turning relatively cold in the port city as another woman became victim of the vector-borne illness, officials said on Monday.

“A 38-year-old woman, resident of North Karachi, died due to complications of the dengue fever at Aga Khan University Hospital on Monday,” an official of the Sindh Dengue Prevention and Control Programme said. With the latest death, the number of deaths due to dengue in the current year rose to 46 in Karachi, officials said, adding that so far over 15,000 people had been infected with the virus in the city.

A married woman and a teenage boy had died due to dengue in Karachi on Saturday, while over 700 people had been infected with the viral disease in the city during first nine days of the current month.

Officials said that although the number of cases had reduced in the current month, people were still getting infected they needed to adopt precautionary measures, including use of mosquito repellents, to prevent themselves from vector-borne illnesses.