Dengue fever outbreak in India

It has come to my attention that an outbreak of dengue fever in India has killed 42 more people and infected another 1,000 in JUST the past four days. It seems that most of the outbreaks are in the New Delhi area. This is extremely disconcerting since I have family members and friends in that area.

A total of 94 people have died since late August, and nearly 5000 dengue fever cases have been reported. Here is the Reuters article on the matter.

About 306 of these cases have been reported in Tamil Nadu, which is even more disconcerting because it is my homestate in India and I have even more family and friends from there.

Though it seems that dengue fever is caused by any Aedes aegypti mosquito bite, the outbreaks in India are apparently caused only by the female bite. Click here to learn more about dengue fever in general, and click here to understand more about the specific outbreak right now in India.