Though the larvae of mosquitoes causing dengue are normally found in the post-monsoon season, the district health authorities found them breeding in desert coolers at four places in a locality here today.
During a routine checking, an insect collector of the office of the Civil Surgeon went to the Street No 9 on the Ajit Road here to check the desert coolers and other breeding places of mosquitoes.
During the checking, he found larvae of the mosquito causing dengue in the desert coolers of four houses and immediately informed the officiating Civil Surgeon, Dr Raghubir Singh Randhawa.
Later, Dr Randhawa along with a team, including epidemiologist Dr Nisha and sanitary inspector Sukhchain Singh, visited the houses and inspected the places. He also got the larvae destroyed. He educated the owners of the houses to dry the water tanks of their desert coolers every seventh day so that the cycle of breeding of larvae could be broken.
Dr Randhawa said it was pertinent to note that the larvae found in the desert coolers of four houses had been hatched from the eggs that had been laid during the previous year.
He said when the climatic conditions (increased humidity and fall in temperature) became favourable recently, the larvae hatched from the eggs after coming into contact with water.
He said it was the first instance during this season that the larva of mosquito causing dengue had been detected so early in the city. He said that so far, no case of dengue from the Bathinda district had been reported this season though in the neighbouring Muktsar district over 50 cases of dengue had been reported and one case was reported in Mansa district.
Dr Randhawa urged the city residents to store water in covered utensils as dengue mosquitoes bred only in clean water. He also asked them not to allow accumulation of water in open earthen pots, waste tyres, small water tanks built outside houses for animals etc.
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