Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 10 (IANS) A premier public health institution here said all vehicles coming from Tamil Nadu at the border near Parasala will be disinfected to check the rising cases of chikungunya and dengue in Kerala.
“The cases of chikungunya and dengue fever in the border districts of Kerala are increasing. We have to disinfect through fogging all vehicles entering the Kerala border near Parasala. We expect to begin that soon. When Kerala was affected a few years back, Tamil Nadu fogged all vehicles entering Tamil Nadu from here,” Thomas Mathew, head of Community Medicine department at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, told IANS.

Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanadan Wednesday launched a strategy to tackle these diseases. The strategy included precautionary steps taken to increase personal hygiene.

Mathew said even though the rainy months were still away, the danger was the increasing mosquito population.

“The health department alone cannot do anything. There has to be a huge effort from various departments and above all the society as a whole has to wake up to tackle this menace,” he added.