Data indicates that Dhaka city is at most risk from dengue infections and requires urgent preventive intervention measures.

Authorities must undertake preventive measures without delay

Loss of 24 lives in a day is unacceptable.

The situation has further deteriorated in June with the onset of monsoon, which is the breeding season for Aedes mosquitoes.

Are we becoming complacent regarding our love-hate living arrangement with mosquitoes?

Dengue fever and other severe dengue symptoms are the result of a viral illness spread by mosquito bites. Those infected with dengue often have a high temperature, headache, bodily pains, nausea, and rash. As the population of Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit the dengue virus, has surged in the early days of summer, medical professionals have warned that Bangladesh may have an even more severe outbreak of the disease in 2023 than in the previous years.

The annual meeting of the Nikhil Bangladesh Mosha (mosquito) Samity has been convened.

A mobile court sends an official of a construction company to jail after Aedes mosquito larvae were found at an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area.

The government has asked all the district administrators, police superintendents and mayors across the country to keep their close watch on the cattle markets sensing chances of increasing mosquitoes breeding from the markets.

The government has allocated Tk 51.5 crore to help Dhaka city corporations and municipalities fight mosquitoes.

Mayor Sayeed Khokon launches a drive in order to eradicate larvae of Aedes mosquito from Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).