Published on 11:20 AM, July 14, 2017
Take steps to eradicate Chikungunya, Khaleda urges govt
Star Online Report
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today called upon the government to take measures immediately for eradicating the menace of mosquito-borne Chikungunya disease.
Khaleda made the call in a tweet from her verified account this morning.
“While I pray for the early recovery of those affected by chikungunya I strongly urge the govt to take urgent steps to eradicate the causes,” she writes.
Dhaka is witnessing the outbreak of the Chikungunya virus, raising a new public health concern in addition to dengue fever.
A viral disease which is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, Chikungunya was first described during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952.
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