Hamayun Rashid Rathor, Imnan Akram Khan, Soaib Ali Hassan.
Point survey: ento-epidemiological investigations of Dengue outbreak in Swat, KPK.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;3(3):41-3.

The incidence of dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) con+nue to grow globally . T oday , dengue is the most important mosquito‐borne viral disease affec+ng humans, with Aedes aegypand Aedes albopictus as the mosquito vector for the dengue viruses, found in nearly 100 tropical countries. Global distribu+on of dengue is comparable to that of malaria, and an es+mated 2.5 billion people live in areas at risk for epidemic transmission. The Entomological Point Survey of Dengue vector in Dengue Epidemic Area of swat was conducted by Department of Medical Entomology and Disease Vector Control (MEDVC), Health Services Academy , Islamabad on the request of Health Authori+es Swat. In Mangora at random 20 houses were searched for the dengue vector and all 20 were found posi+ve. A total number of 103 containers were searched and all 103 found posi+ve of the Aedes Larvae. The House index (HI), Container index (CI), Breteau index (BI) and Pupal Index (PI) was calculated as 100, 100, 515 and 600 respec+vely

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