Malaria outbreaks?

DestinationX

Where can I find out whether there have been recent malaria-, dengue- or other outbreaks in specific area's in India?

Indian (english-written) newspapers maybe? Any links on the web?

Thanks for your help!

Nick-H

Malaria is endemic in [much of] India.

I don't think anybody bothers to write up an 'outbreak'

Chickungunya got a lot of news coverage a few months back, as a lesser-known mossie-carried disease that suddenly started striking people down. For a while, numbers and stuff were being reported. Then, like all news, it suddenly becomes yesterday's news. Is there less chickungunya in Chennai now? the fact that it is not in the newspapers may, or may not be an indicator.

Dengue was in the news recently. I forget where... Delhi, was it? Again, just because it is out of the news...

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DestinationX

Seems like a hard thing to figure out which areas to avoid then...

Nick, with endimic, you mean it's all over India? no specific places, right? (excuse my vocabulary ;-))

SteamBuff

It is possible to catch Maleria anywhere in India, the only exception being if you are above about 2,500 meters.

The Risks are higher in some regions than others.

blackbird

There are areas without malaria, and others where it is rare, but as the situation can change and reliable information is hard to come by, it's better to assume that all areas below 2000m have it.

(Although I do relax a bit if I've been somewhere a few days and not seen a mosquito.)

Nick-H

Sheesh--- I'd love to go a few days without seeing a mosquito .

Yes... been bad here recently.

Sama

try the US Center for Disease Control website

they usually have world outbreak maps

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noflylist

Luckily for me malaria has not been a problem in India, thank God

tnog

There was a very well publicized Dengue outbreak in Delhi and other parts of India last year around October. Here's a Wikipedia article about it.

I knew a few people who contracted the mosquito born disease.

There was a widely reported case where a med student died who contracted it in a hostel at AIIMS, (one of countries' premier medical institutions) and also some of PM Manmohan Singh's grandsons and son-in-law were hospitalized.

But a thousand cases in a city of 13.5 million are still pretty small odds.

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