Dengue outbreak: No cause of panic, says AIIMS
New Delhi: Leading experts in medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) advised people to focus on prevention of dengue as so far there was no specific treatment of the vector-borne disease.
However, there should be no cause of panic as there were only 2 per cent deaths in dengue cases, they said at a press conference held here to highlight the measures being taken by the country's premier medical institution on the National Dengue Day.
Prof PK Sen, director of the vector-borne diseases centre of AIIMS, said so far 18 countries had licenced production of the vaccine, but it was being used on a large scale only in Philippines.
He said India was closely studying the results of the vaccine's introduction in the south-east Asian nation.
So far the apex experts committee set up by the Ministry of Health had rejected the vaccine three times, saying that more scientific evidence was needed before it could finally be certified.
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