Fresh cases of dengue reported from several Odisha districts

Bhubaneswar, September 29, 2014 – Fresh cases of dengue have been reported from 27 of the 30 districts of Odisha with the death toll in vector borne disease mounting to seven, officials at the state health today said.

Fresh cases of dengue have been reported mostly from Kandhamal district, where a patient was detected dengue positive at the district headquarters hospital at Phulbani yesterday, said a senior official of the Dengue monitoring cell here.

Of the 256 sample blood tests carried out across government hospitals in the state yesterday, 53 patients were detected as dengue positive.

With this, the total number of dengue patients in the state went up to 2,370, the official said.

Of the positive cases, 128 were being treated at two government hospitals, while 121 patients were admitted at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack

with the remaining seven being treated at the Capital Hospital here.

The latest death report came from the Kalinga Nagar area in Jajpur district on Friday last, the official added. PTI