Dengue mosquitoes love to lay eggs in water near flowers

New York: Mosquitoes known to transmit diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya are more likely to lay eggs in water sources near flowers, new research has found.The researchers studied the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) and its egg-laying preferences."This study provides evidence of the attractiveness of flowering butterfly bushes to ovipositing (i.e., egg-laying) Aedes albopictus," said one of the study authors Timothy ...

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Dengue costs the world $8.9 bn annually

New York: Dengue imposes a whopping $8.9 billion economic burden every year on 141 countries and territories where active transmission of the disease has been identified, a new study says."Our global estimates suggest that in 2013 there were a total of 58·40 million symptomatic dengue virus infections, including 13,586 fatal cases and that the total annual global cost of dengue illness was $8·9 billion," said the study published in the Lancet...

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Delhi Government Asks Hospitals To Add Beds As Dengue Cases Rise

New Delhi:  With a spurt in dengue cases, the Delhi government on Monday asked all hospitals and nursing homes here to add up to 20 per cent extra beds and ordered them not to deny admission to patients suffering from the vector-borne disease.Hospitals and nursing homes will get permission for increasing their bed strength on the condition that these beds will be used only for admitting fever and dengue patients,...

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