TN intensifies dengue surveillance
Last month, the Tamil Nadu Health and Family Welfare Department intensified surveillance across the state, rolling out an inter-departmental strategy to boost early detection, monitor disease transmission, and eliminate mosquito breeding hotspots, even as officials clarified that there was no immediate plan to roll out Qdenga, India’s first approved dengue vaccine.
Last year, between January and November, the state recorded 20,866 dengue cases and 12 deaths. Health officials attributed the rise in cases not to an out-of-control outbreak, but to the strength of Tamil Nadu’s disease surveillance and reporting system, which tracks infections from the primary health care center level to secondary and tertiary care hospitals.
