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Dengue Cases Go Up In Pakistan

by VR Sreeraman on Oct 30 2006 2:25 PM

The number of dengue fever afected patients rose Saturday to 1,772 in Pakistan, according to a report from the website of local newspaper The News.

In the last 24 hours, 19 new patients were admitted to the hospitals with signs and symptoms of dengue fever from Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

According to statistics of Pakistani National Institute of Health, blood samples of 89 suspected dengue fever patients have been received, out of which 39 cases have been diagnosed positive.

In Islamabad, 21 out of 61 suspected dengue fever cases were found positive.

Source-IANS
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