Mumbai, Oct 29 (Mid-Day): The latest claim by civic health officials can certainly make the Weird Science section of a medical journal. After coming under attack for increasing number of dengue patients in the city, Pune Municipal Corporation seems to have got to the bottom of the problem where it saw that there weren’t enough clothes covering Puneites, which was making them susceptible to be feasted upon by mosquitoes — the carrier of the disease.

According to PMC officials, people who expose a lot of their body while sleeping are falling prey to dengue. And since men choose to be less encumbered by clothing while hitting the sack, it is making them vulnerable to bites by Aedes aegypti, the mosquito responsible for inflicting dengue.

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They corroborated this theory by citing statistics available with them about dengue, which say more men than women have contracted it (see box: Fact Check). “If we consider the data with us now, most dengue patients are male. And if we consider the majority of these males, they have been infected with dengue due to more exposure of skin. Common guidelines to prevent dengue include that people cover themselves fully while sleeping.