Bangladesh hit by worst dengue outbreak on record: WHO

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These women are basically poor Hindus in Bangladesh. Poojeets have to traffick women from Nepal and Bangladesh because India is struggling with abnormal sex-ratio resulting from decades of female feticides and infanticides. Additionally, these poojeets are also losing their women to Muslims.

This has made prostitution a very lucrative business in poojeetland. I saw one report by DW which said a low level prostitute in India makes around $800 per month. Now even upper caste Hindu girls in India are joining this business.

These subhuman poojeets are basically mocking at their own miseries and then boasting about it. lol

Prostitution is a formal part of Hinduism. There are specific Hindu castes for prostitution.

Lot of Hindu temples have nude sculptures because they operated as brothels at night and place of worship during the day.

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Dengue vaccine tests successful for 1st time in epidemic-hit Bangladesh​

Single-dose vaccine demonstrates safety, effective against all 4 dengue serotypes, shows study

Anadolu Agency
September 28, 2023

The single-dose vaccine, TV005, demonstrated safety and immune responsiveness in children and adults. PHOTO: ANADOLU AGENCY

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DHAKA: A dengue vaccine has been successfully tested for the first time in Bangladesh, raising hopes for the south Asian country to overcome the epidemic, scientists revealed in a new study, according to a statement on Thursday.

The single-dose vaccine, TV005, demonstrated safety and immune responsiveness in children and adults, tested effective against all the four dengue serotypes, according to the study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Wednesday.

Scientists from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), a Dhaka-based international health research organization, and the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont conducted the study, the ICDDR, B said in the statement.

Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne virus, is spreading throughout the world, especially in tropical regions. Mild cases cause fever and bone pain, while serious ones are associated with shock, bleeding, and sometimes death.

Public health specialists have urged authorities in Bangladesh to improve healthcare facilities as the country struggles to deal with rising cases, up to five times higher than cases reported by the government.

Other countries in South Asia are also experiencing surging outbreaks, while this year is Bangladesh's worst on record as cases overwhelm hospitals in the capital Dhaka, the ICDDR, B added.

“Currently, fluid management and symptom control are the only available treatments for dengue. Vaccine development against all four serotypes (a tetravalent vaccine) is a high global priority,” said the statement.

As of Thursday, Bangladesh reported a total of 967 deaths and nearly 200,000 cases of hospitalization due to dengue this year, a record of both figures in the last 23 years.

It said the study was a phase 2 randomized and controlled clinical trial evaluating the vaccine's safety, immunogenicity, and three-year durability.

Investigators followed 192 volunteers in four age cohorts up to 49 years old who received the vaccine or placebo over the course of three years, beginning in 2016. The jab was shown to be well-tolerated, the study noted.

Antibodies to all four dengue serotypes were found in most volunteers after vaccination, while individuals who had been infected previously had higher antibody counts. Though the study was not designed to evaluate efficacy, no cases of dengue were detected in vaccinated volunteers.

The University of Vermont has been evaluating dengue vaccines developed by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2009.

Participating investigators at the ICDDR, B include lead investigator and senior scientist Rashidul Haque, and key contributors Md. Shafiul Alam, Sajia Afreen, and Md. Masud Alam.

"The development of an effective and tetravalent dengue vaccine is a very high priority for the large population of Bangladesh, which is now having increasingly severe dengue outbreaks," stated Haque.

"The TV005 vaccine is the only single dose tetravalent dengue vaccine, which is an important feature of this vaccine," the University of Vermont team leader Beth Kirkpatrick said in the statement.

 

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Lot of Hindu temples have nude sculptures because they operated as brothels at night and place of worship during the day.

What else can you expect from a land of open defecation? I am sure they defecate in the temples too.

 

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Bangladesh dengue deaths top 1,000 in worst outbreak on record​

AFP
October 2, 2023

More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever since the start of the year, official figures showed, in the country’s worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.

Dengue is a disease endemic to tropical areas that causes high fevers, headaches, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain and, in the most serious cases, bleeding that can lead to death.

The World Health Organization has warned that dengue — and other diseases caused by mosquito-borne viruses such as chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika — are spreading faster and further due to climate change.

Figures from the country’s Directorate General of Health Services published on Sunday night said 1,006 people had died, among more than 200,000 confirmed cases.

The agency’s former director Be-Nazir Ahmed told AFP Monday that the number of deaths so far this year was higher than every previous year combined since 2000.
“It’s a massive health event, both in Bangladesh and in the world,” he added.

Among the dead are 112 children aged 15 and under, including infants, according to the official data.

This year’s figures dwarf the previous highest total from 2022 when 281 deaths were recorded.

Scientists have attributed this year’s outbreak to irregular rainfall and hotter temperatures during the annual monsoon season that have created ideal breeding conditions for mosquitoes.

Bangladesh has recorded cases of dengue from the 1960s but documented its first outbreak of dengue haemorrhagic fever, a severe and sometimes fatal symptom of the disease, in 2000.

The virus that causes the disease is now endemic to Bangladesh, which has seen a trend of worsening outbreaks since the turn of the century.

Most cases are recorded during the July to September monsoon season, the months which bring the vast majority of the country’s annual rainfall, along with occasional floods and landslides.

But Bangladeshi hospitals have also begun to admit patients suffering from the disease during winter months in recent years.

Dengue wards in Dhaka’s major hospitals are currently filled with patients being treated beneath mosquito nets under the watchful and worried eyes of family members.

‘Canary in the coal mine’​

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in September that the outbreak was “putting huge pressure on the health system” in Bangladesh.

The agency’s alert and response director Abdi Mahamud said the same month that such outbreaks were a “canary in the coal mine of the climate crisis”.

He said that a combination of factors including climate change and this year’s El Nino warming weather pattern had contributed to severe dengue outbreaks in several areas including Bangladesh and South America.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa such as Chad have also recently reported outbreaks, he added.