KOCHI: Even as the State Health Department has initiated a series of monsoon disease prevention programmes, fever cases are on the rise in districts like Thrissur, Palakkad, Alappuzha and Kozhikode. According to the State Epidemic Monitoring Cell of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) statistics, when compared to other districts, these four districts top in fever outbreak.
Malaria cases are also showing a slight increase in Kollam, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod. District surveillance officers in these districts have been put on high alert and instructed to ensure timely control measures. District health officials have been instructed to sustain diphtheria surveillance and control measures in the northern districts where several incidences of the disease were reported.
In Palakkad, the health authorities have confirmed the outbreak of acute diarrhoea. Though dengue cases are static in most of the districts, the number is increasing in Alappuzha. District medical officers and district surveillance officers have been asked to strengthen control measures in the affected areas.
Meanwhile, leptospirosis cases are showing a downward trend especially in Thiruvananthapuram where the highest number of cases of the disease were reported last month. Earlier, all the SSH (sentinel surveillance hospitals) labs in dengue vulnerable areas have been asked to do the confirmatory tests for dengue at least once in two days.
