Med team in Tml to curb malaria
By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jul 3: Along with detection of two new posi-tive cases of Malaria in Ti- paimukh area of Chura-chandpur district, a medical team has been rushed there to monitor the situation.
According to informa-tion received from the State Vector Borne Disease Con-trol Society, which is res- ponsible for Malaria control programme in the State, though there is no report of any death and the situation is not so alarming, medical teams have been send to collect blood samples and monitor the situation.
Now being the season of breeding Malarial parasite, such stray cases of Malaria is quite normal. But care should be taken up to en-sure it does not become an epidemic and the affected people should seek proper medication, sources said.
Sources further inform-ed that medical teams have also been fanned out to other Malaria prone areas like Tousem in Tamenglong district, Vangai Range in Churachandpur district and Kamjong and Khamasom in Ukhrul district for taking up necessary precautionary measures.
As for the outbreak of Malaria reported from Tao-thong area of Imphal West district some days earlier, the situation has been brought fully under control, sources said, adding that blood samples of 300 stu-dents of the area tested negative.
Meanwhile, apart from normal exercise like fogging and sensitisation program-me to control Malaria, State Vector Borne Disease Con-trol Society has success-fully bred adequate quanti- ty of Larvivorous fishes of Gambusia Affinis and Guppy varieties, which feed on mosquito larvae, for free distribution among the peo-ple who would like to con- tribute their mite in the on-going efforts towards con- trolling Malaria in the State.
In this regard, officials of the State Malaria Office at Lamphel explained that these Larvivorous fishes should be released in stag-nant water bodies including tanks, ponds, drains and even puddles, which are possible breeding grounds of Malarial parasites.
These fishes are highly procreative and an adult can produce fingerlings in thousands every three days. However, these fish-es are not meant for human consumption, they said.