Twelve people have died and more than 28,000 people have been infected in 2024.
KATHMANDU - Nepal is fighting a surge in dengue cases, a potentially deadly disease once unheard of in the country’s high-altitude Himalayan regions, as climate change and urbanisation nurture fever-bringing mosquitoes in new zones.
Twelve people have died and more than 28,000 people have been infected in 2024, including 18 cases in Solukhumbu district, home to Mount Everest.“It should not be seen here at all,” said Dr Suman Tiwari, district health chief for Solukhumbu, which sits at an altitude of some 2,500m. “Once upon a time, it was just seen in a certain area, but it is moving up towards mountainous regions, even up to the Himalayan foothills.”
World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the global spread an “alarming trend”.Dr Narayan Gyawali, a virologist who specialises in zoonotic diseases, said that urbanisation and increased mobility of people were also driving the dengue surge.
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