This paper is published in Volume-3, Issue-1, 2017
Area
Epidemiology, Public Health
Author
Suman Lata, Gurmeet Singh, Sarita Dubey
Org/Univ
KGMU, Institute of Nursing, Lucknow, India
Pub. Date
17 January, 2017
Paper ID
V3I1-1162
Publisher
Keywords
Dengue, Epidemiological Investigation, Outbreak.

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Suman Lata, Gurmeet Singh, Sarita Dubey. An Epidemiological Investigation of Dengue Outbreak in Shri Muktsar Sahib District, Punjab, India 2012., International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Suman Lata, Gurmeet Singh, Sarita Dubey (2017). An Epidemiological Investigation of Dengue Outbreak in Shri Muktsar Sahib District, Punjab, India 2012.. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 3(1) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Suman Lata, Gurmeet Singh, Sarita Dubey. "An Epidemiological Investigation of Dengue Outbreak in Shri Muktsar Sahib District, Punjab, India 2012.." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 3.1 (2017). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

Dengue is a serious and worldwide spreading illness caused by the mosquito Aedes aegypti bite. Seasonal variation in dengue outbreak has been noticed by many years and it is a systematically increase. The study was designed to apply district epidemiological field that is time, place and person. With the other epidemiological determinant including finding the etiology behind dengue outbreak. Data was collected at Shri Muktsar sahib with the reported cases of dengue at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College including the convenient sampling technique with total enumeration. Case confirmation was done by serological examination for dengue fever. Out of 812 reported cases, 399 were positive for dengue. Dengue outbreak caused higher morbidity which might have resulted in morbidity and fatality of dengue fever in district At that point the situation was turned into the outbreak. It has been seen at Shri Muktsar Sahib District, from being a sporadic illness, outbreaks of dengue have now become a regular occurrence. The reason behind this outbreak is water storage and improper sanitation.