The season for monsoon ailments and epidemics has just set in, and the irritating hum of mosquitoes has returned to haunt. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s recent survey has discovered though, that the blood-sucking pests have taken on an even more potent form this year. The number of dengue-causing mosquitoes per room in the city has tripled, finds the survey.
The findings of the AMC's July 2010 survey have come as a health alarm for the civic body and residents alike. It states that the breeding of the Aedes mosquito, responsible for causing dengue, has increased by three times, as compared to July 2009. The AMC survey had detected 0.35 Aedes mosquitoes per room in the city in July 2009, which has increased to 0.98 in July 2010. Also, the presence of Malaria-causing mosquitoes has gone down from 0.54 per room in 2009, to 0.38 in 2010.
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