Wherever plastic segregation has been applied successfully in India, No case of Dengue or Chikunguenea is reported there. The menace of inadequate waste disposal, unscientific dumping at landfill sites, is making a home for Dengue. Not only in Metro cities but in small towns & villages too the mixed garbage heaps can be found everywhere. This is catering to mosquitoes and carcinogenic leeches.
Government machinery of Health only looks for medical treatment and overlooks this important causative factor, hence there is no expected decrease in epidemics of Dengue in the near future.
A proposed model of effective waste segregation in and outside the house by providing 2 dustbins at home and installing proposed model in street, is not being applied, hence this menace may continue.
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Re: What can India do about dengue fever?
Wherever plastic segregation has been applied successfully in India, No case of Dengue or Chikunguenea is reported there. The menace of inadequate waste disposal, unscientific dumping at landfill sites, is making a home for Dengue. Not only in Metro cities but in small towns & villages too the mixed garbage heaps can be found everywhere. This is catering to mosquitoes and carcinogenic leeches.
Government machinery of Health only looks for medical treatment and overlooks this important causative factor, hence there is no expected decrease in epidemics of Dengue in the near future.
A proposed model of effective waste segregation in and outside the house by providing 2 dustbins at home and installing proposed model in street, is not being applied, hence this menace may continue.
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