Dengue Epidemic in Delhi

Delhi for some strange reason has never appealed to me as a city to live in. There's no night life as things get shut down after 8 in the night, the pollution, traffic, insecurity, extreme weather conditions and the list goes on. Even the scenic locations, wide roads and the chicks couldn’t make up for it.

Anyways coming to the point, I'm talking about the Dengue epidemic in Delhi. What started as a little incident seemed to throb with significance? In a couple of days the disease was declared as epidemic and officials got their act together by increasing the staff for fogging at various places in Delhi.

This news had soon reached all parts of the country and people now know more about dengue than India. For example, you can die of hemorrhage which would result in internal bleeding and this is possible only in the case when you're bitten by mosquitoes infected with multiple strands of Dengue. And by the way there are three strands of Dengue and in very rare cases you see concurrent incidence of all the strands. Quite Impressive right!!! Thanks to all the announcements and the posters in the campus.

Anyways my well-wishers have been pleading me to take proper preventive measures (again courtesy - popularity of my laziness) and they have scared me so much that I become very restless at the sight of even a single mosquito in my room.

Dengue had caused many problems for people. For example, one of my friends is suffering from diarrhea is too scared to visit the loo as he is afraid that he might catch dengue from the mosquitoes (permanent occupants of loos in IIT) and neither he can stop himself from not visiting. Good luck to such guys.

My recent sickness had shaken me enough and I'm taking all the preventive measures.

My best wishes with the affected ones. Get well soon!!! And others take care...