New Delhi / Bangalore: With many cities reeling under the menace of mosquito-borne diseases like Dengue and Chikungunya, the patients as well as the local authorities are in no mood to leave aside any possible measure in sight.
In Delhi, an Ayurvedic drug manufacturer has donated a truck full of mosquito repellents to the Delhi Government to fight mosquitoes.
While doctors claimed that the falling mercury in the Capital had resulted in a decline in the number of dengue cases, the death toll in Delhi continued to rise on Friday and was up to 46 with three more persons succumbing to the virus during the past 24 hours.
Also 88 fresh cases have been registered in Delhi taking the total number of cases registered so far to 1,908.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit has said the repellents will be distributed to various medical centres in the capital as part of an overall effort to contain the spread of Dengue.
"These items that we have received will be sent to various hospitals, dispensaries and schools. We will send this to the health secretary and from there it will be distributed. The items we have received will be helpful in our fight to check the spread of the disease," said Dixit.
Whereas Chikungunya is playing havoc in south India with over 100 deaths and over 40,000 people found infected.
In Bangalore, a spiritual foundation has claimed that Yoga, the exercised-based science, could help in confronting Chikungunya.
Yoga has the potential to strengthen a person's immunity to fight a disease like Chikungunya, claims a Yoga instructor.
"The place, where I conducted the special course, many people were suffering from chikungunya. It was a doctor's residence and there was a hospital outside. Patients used to visit us and the disease was spreading but nothing happened to me. The doctor I was staying with contracted the disease but she got cured within three days. There wasn't any joint pain or other side effects," said Radhika Rai, a yoga instructor with Art of Living Foundation.
"I also spoke to the volunteers who underwent my yoga course. The patients said that despite their family members suffering form the disease, they did not contract it. If they got affected by chance, it was cured within three days," Rai added.
Dengue is spread by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, with symptoms such as fever, severe headache, joint and muscular pains, vomiting and rashes. Dengue fever, for which there is no vaccine, causes excruciating muscle and joint pains, high fever and severe headaches.
Like dengue, there is no vaccine for Chikungunya, and at best, symptoms can be countered through painkillers, intake of plenty of fluids and lots of rest.
Though the fever usually resolves on its own within three to seven days but the joint pains persist for months or even years.
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