Pakistan has registered as many as 76,210 dengue virus cases during the ongoing year. According to a detailed report prepared by the National Institute of Health (NIH), as many as 76,210 dengue virus cases with 136 deaths were reported countrywide from January 1 to December 5, 2022. Sindh remains the highly infected province with 22,495 cases and 61 deaths of the mosquito-borne disease. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 22,799 dengue virus cases with 18 deaths followed by Punjab with 18,797 cases and 45 deaths.

Islamabad reported 5,392 cases of dengue virus and six deaths. Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir reported 5,283 and 1,444 dengue cases, respectively. Sources further stated, no deaths were reported in Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir during the current ongoing year. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in recent years around the world. Dengue virus is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and, to a lesser extent, Ae. albopictus.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP