1 of every 11 influenced by chikungunya' is fake news, IEDCR clears up

'1 of every 11 influenced by chikungunya' is fake news, IEDCR clears up

This record photograph gone up against January 25, 2016 demonstrates a mosquito captured on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center (CIDEIM) in Cali, Colombia. AFP record photograph

UNB, Dhaka

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has questioned the news about real quantities of chikungunya influenced individuals in Dhaka city.

Broad communications in Bangladesh communicate and distributed the news citing IEDCR, that no less than one out of 11 inhabitants of the capital Dhaka experienced chikungunya.

The news would prompt disarray about the quantities of influenced individuals, they said in a public statement the previous evening.

They said the organization directed a review over cell phone in a little scale to gather some thought regarding the nearness of the fever.

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Exactly 4,775 tenants of the city were reached with this study and somewhere in the range of 357 individuals communicated that they experienced fever with torment in joints of the body.

The study was led over cell phone so the information was not examined. It ought not be extrapolated to mean one of every 11 occupants experienced chikungunya.

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The establishment has an arrangement to incorporate this study information in advance exercises to gather the real nearness of chikungunya among those individuals.

In this circumstance there is no degree for choices about the quantities of influenced individuals in the city in light of this inadequate review, they said.

This study information can't speak to the quantities of influenced individuals in the more extensive populace