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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Dengue costing India over $1bn per year: Study -Sushmi Dey

Dengue costing India over $1bn per year: Study -Sushmi Dey

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published Published on May 6, 2016   modified Modified on May 6, 2016
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Dengue, the mosquito-borne disease which hits India hard every year, is estimated to cost the world a whopping $8.9 billion annually. That's higher than many major infectious diseases including cholera, canine rabies and rotavirus gastroenteritis, medical journal Lancet has said quoting a new study.

India shares a significant burden of the total cost. Last year, when there was an unusual surge in dengue cases in India with Delhi alone reporting as many as 15,867 cases and 60 deaths, the journal had pegged the economic burden inflicted by the disease on the country at around $1.11 billion a year.

The findings are part of a study conducted by a group of health economists at Brandeis University in the US. The group has assessed 141 countries and territories around the world where active dengue transmission has been identified.

Dengue has also been identified as the world's fastest growing mosquito-borne disease posing health risk to about half the world's population.

This year, close to 4,000 dengue cases have already been reported in India till April, according to the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. The health ministry has already held meetings with state authorities and issued advisories to take preventive measures as well as be prepared to handle any outbreak this year.

However, experts say, the reported number of cases may have been significantly underestimated. An October, 2014, study in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene by researchers at the Brandeis University, showed that the annual number of dengue fever cases in India could be 282-times higher than the number officially reported.

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The Times of India, 6 May, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dengue-costing-India-over-1bn-per-year-Study/articleshow/52138211.cms


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