Dengue, chikungunya infections in India underestimated: Study
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Washington: Lack of Awareness among the patients seems to be a major problem in the field of healthcare. Owing to this, people actually don't come to know when they are suffering from a particular disease. This is clear from a study which claimed that the number of people infected by two mosquito-borne viruses - dengue and chikungunya - in southern India is much higher than estimated, researchers, including those from India, have found.
The researchers tested blood samples from 1,010 people across 50 locations in Chennai, a city with over 6 million people, and found that nearly all of them had been exposed to dengue and 44 per cent had been exposed to chikungunya.
Surprisingly, almost none of the people who had been exposed to dengue reported having been infected by it, either because they were not properly diagnosed with the disease or because they did not show symptoms.
The researchers tested blood samples from 1,010 people across 50 locations in Chennai, a city with over 6 million people, and found that nearly all of them had been exposed to dengue and 44 per cent had been exposed to chikungunya.
Surprisingly, almost none of the people who had been exposed to dengue reported having been infected by it, either because they were not properly diagnosed with the disease or because they did not show symptoms.
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