Manmade Environment and the Risk of Acquiring Dengue in the Northeastern Part of India: An Entomological Perspective

AbstractHuman ecology sometimes influences upon the abundance of some of the disease transmitting insect vectors. Studies conducted to know the prevalence of potential dengue vectors in the Northeastern part of India re veal that in urban, industrial and semiurban environment, the preponderance of the potential dengue vectors arc found to be considerably high. It is observed that the situations in which these Aedes mosquitoes survive or reproduce are created by man knowingly or unknowingly and as a result, human population residing in an around this environment are always at risk of acquiring dengue vims infection.