Surveillance: No confirmed case of dengue in Lahore

LAHORE:

No new case of dengue fever has been confirmed so far. The patients showing dengue-like systems have typhoid or malaria, said the Dengue Expert Advisory Group chairman Prof Dr Faisal Masood on Monday.

He was addressing a press conference at the Directorate General of Public Relations.

According to Professor Masood, 30 per cent of Lahore’s population was affected by the virus last year.

Many of the patients who come to hospitals had suffered from it last year, he said. As a result they had tested positive for IGG and IGM, Masood said, adding that the Dengue Advisory Group was recommending the NS-I test to such patients. The test, he said, determines the virus’ serotype.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 28^th, 2012.