So many lives have been lost cause of dengue. I for one,
have someone close to me who has been affected by this deadly disease. Dengue
is a a preventive disease if only we take precautions as a community and as a
family.
This year, we has
seen a noticeable mount of dengue cases in the country. According to the Department of Health‟s Dengue
Surveillance Report, 95,142 victims have been affected by the
mosquito-born disease in the first nine months of 2012 alone. A significant 12.94% increase from last year‟s
same period, this turnaround left even school administration to be more
vigilant and take extra preventive measures against the dreaded disease.
The widespread transmission of dengue
The hasty transmission of the resilient virus has led school
administrators, particularly the Lourdes School of Mandaluyong (LSM), to
ascertain that the mosquito
vector‟s highly adaptable quality is partly to blame. “These mosquitoes can
easily adapt to changes in the environment, find new places to breed and even
effortlessly adjust to human settlements. Previous efforts like defogging would
only temporarily drive mosquitoes away, and they would be here again to look
for a new prey,” shares
Ana Eva Bolinao, School Principal of LSM. Bolinao also reveals that the school
has recorded 20 cases of dengue out of its total population of about 1,200 high
school and grade school students.
