ISLAMABAD, Dec 27 (APP):The number of dengue cases has surpassed 15,060 at
Punjab in the current year with four new cases reported during the last 24 hours in the provincial capital.
Secretary
Punjab Health Department, Ali J
an Khan told a private news channel that Rawalpindi has so far reported 2,654 dengue cases in the current year. As many as 16 patients of dengue fever were currently admitted to hospitals of the province, he added.
Dengue vir
us is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in recent years around the world. Dengue vir
us is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the spec
ies Aedes aegypti and, to a lesser extent, Ae. albopictus.
