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6 more fatalities due to dengue push death toll in Delhi to 23

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6 more fatalities due to dengue push death toll in Delhi to 23

The health department said that Delhi reported six more deaths from dengue fever on Monday, bringing the total death toll in the capital to 23.

As of December 18, the official dengue death toll maintained by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation was 17.

The number of deaths from dengue fever this year is the highest in the capital since 2016, when the official death toll was 10. The number of deaths due to dengue fever in the years before 2020 is 2019; four in 2018; both 2017 and 2016 ranked 10th.

The health department further stated that this week, Delhi reported 130 new cases of vector-borne diseases, bringing the total to more than 9,500.

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As of December 25 this month, Delhi has recorded a total of 1,269 cases of dengue fever.

In response to the increasing number of dengue fever cases, the Delhi High Court on Friday instructed local agencies, including three municipal companies, to form a task force to monitor and control mosquito infestations in the city. In previous years, the total number of reported dengue fever cases was 4,431 (2016), 4,726 (2017), 2,798 (2018), 2,036 (2019), and 1,072 (2020) according to municipal records.

Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh dealt a heavy blow to the authorities and added that someone must be responsible for the increase in cases.

In 2015, a large-scale dengue fever outbreak broke out in the city. The number of cases in a single month (October) exceeded 10,600, making it the most serious vector-borne disease outbreak in the country’s capital since 1996.

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

Two studies that did not definitively resolve the question of whether the coronavirus can cause the chronic disease of diabetes found that Covid-19 in children and adolescents appeared to increase the chance of acquiring diabetes. Over two years after the pandemic’s commencement, researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health looked at new type 1 diabetes diagnoses using national health registries. They discovered that type 1 diabetes was roughly 60% more likely to develop in children who had tested positive for the coronavirus.

The risk within 30 days of a Covid infection confirmed by a PCR test was examined by the researchers. Young adults were also included in a Scottish study that was presented at the European Link for the Study of Diabetes meeting. This study indicated an increased risk one month following the viral sickness, but the researchers said they discovered no association after that point.

The authors of both studies emphasised that their findings do not necessarily imply a causal link between diabetes and the coronavirus. Other potential causes were emphasised, such as delays in seeking medical attention during the epidemic, the introduction of other diseases, and alterations in way of life brought on by lockdowns.

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, an associate professor at the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, stated: “There are a lot of plausible reasons that Covid-19 might lead to development of type 1 diabetes, but this remains in no way proved.”
According to a paper earlier this week in the medical journal The Lancet, the number of people with type 1 diabetes, in which the pancreas fails to generate the hormone insulin, may increase from 8.4 million to 17.4 million by the year 2040.

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The illness, which has no known treatment and is most frequently diagnosed in children, is thought to be caused by a combination of genetics and exposure to particular pathogens, including SARS-Cov-2 as well as a larger family of viruses known as enteroviruses. Type 2 diabetes, which is more prevalent, typically appears later in life as sedentary habits and weight increase mess with the body’s ability to manage sugar.

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