Take precautions to prevent dengue and malaria

Senior Medical Officer of local Civil Hospital, Dr. Satvir Singh, while alerting people about health, said that different types of mosquitoes spread many serious diseases like dengue, chikungunya, malaria and Japanese brain fever. Many concrete steps have been taken by health department to prevent them.Dr. Satvir Singh said that female Anopheles mosquito, which spreads malaria, bites mostly at night and the female Aedes mosquito, which spreads dengue and chikungunya, bites during the day.

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He said that the female mosquito lays eggs in stagnant clean water such as drains, water pits, water storage tanks, near water taps, coolers, flower vases, open bottles, broken utensils, old tyres and tubes, open boxes, plastic bags, water pots kept for birds, heaps of wet garbage and other such useless things in which water stagnates.Dr. Satvir Singh said that main symptoms of dengue are high fever, severe headache, pain behind eyes (which increases on moving the eyes), pain in muscles and joints etc. Similarly, main symptoms of Chikungunya are pain and swelling in joints along with fever, sudden increase in fever with shivering and chills, headache etc. He said that i