Australia helps Sri Lanka to control dengue fever after 250 die
Australia announced programs on Wednesday to help control dengue fever in Sri Lanka, where the mosquito-borne disease killed more around 250 people in the first half of this year.
A short-term program through the World Health Organization will try to reduce the transmission of the dengue virus, aiming for a reduction of more than 50 percent over a period of four to six weeks.
A longer-term programmer will use Wolbachia bacteria, a microbe that prevents the dengue virus from replicating inside the mosquitoes that carry it, to halt its transmission to people. Similar campaigns are under way in Brazil and Colombia to fight the spread of dengue and Zika viruses.
Both programs were announced by Julie Bishop, the Australian minister of foreign affairs, during a two-day visit to Colombo.
The Sri Lankan government is struggling to control the dengue virus, which causes flu-like symptoms and can develop into the deadly hemorrhagic dengue fever. Around 100,000 people have been infected, and the number of infected has accelerated since floods in mid-May. Some hospitals have run out of beds.
(Reuters)
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but will our government accept this help and prevent the loss of life of we the people
If our so called University graduates or science tics cannot do anything we might as well get of Australians.
This is a shame on our Scientists.
Couldn’t they have Googled and found out that “Similar campaigns are under way in Brazil and Colombia to fight the spread of dengue and Zika viruses”.
Do we have to wait for this white lady to come from Oz and lecture to us?
Prof Carlos Fonseka, couldn’t he have found this out thru Google instead of sending valuable medical Students to Fort Station because he has a problem with Neville Fernando?
Shame on you people.
Yes Mr. UNGI pl do not be too harsh on this gorgeous Auz Lady. Auz ladies always helped us remember Adlede Balasingham (Auz nurse) Training Our Tiger Kids? After all she is doing a good thing isn’t it?
our laymen and scientists would have gone to the internet and inform the parliamentarians but they cannot understand such things in fact our scientists had found a similar bacteria a mosquito that eats other mosquitoes but I heard one of our parliamentarians stating that next will hear of a mosquito that eats rice