Health Alerts

Unseasonably warm weather and recent floods are exacerbating the dengue fever situation which is now affecting 67 of the country’s districts - the director of the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Diseases Hospital in Kathmandu was recently quoted as saying that they had “never had an outbreak like this before”. Highest rates of infection have been in Chitwan (2,416 cases) followed by 2,183 in the district of Kaski (which includes Pokhara) and more than 1,500 in Kathmandu. The national count from mid-July to the end of September neared the 11,000-mark with six deaths. Read more.