Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (NR)

Udupi, June 23: The Department of Health and Family Welfare urged people to take precautionary measures as malaria cases are on the rise, as per its press release issued here on Thursday June 21.

According to the Department press release, in the period between January to May 2007 in Udupi district itself, as many as 197 cases of malaria were reported as against 238 cases in the corresponding period of last year. More cases of malaria were reported in Udupi district in June. 

As per the release, water logging around the houses allows mosquitoes to breed in large numbers thereby causing malarial infection and fever in human beings. Persons thus attacked by fever should immediately consult a doctor and take proper treatment. 

The release also urged the public to take certain precautionary measures to halt the spread of this disease. One was by not allowing water logging to take place in the potholes on roads. All kinds of wastes such as plastics, coconut kernels are to be disposed off immediately. Further water kept for the purpose of curing by the Builders should be changed once a week.