More than 65,000 cases of dengue have been recorded in Bangladesh at the start of November, as climate change turns the disease into a year-round crisis, leaving some paediatric wards packed with children squeezed two to a bed.
The Aedes mosquito that spreads dengue -- identifiable by its black and white striped legs -- breeds in stagnant pools, and cases once slowed after the monsoon rains faded.
The Aedes mosquito that spreads dengue -- identifiable by its black and white striped legs -- breeds in stagnant pools, and cases once slowed after the monsoon rains faded.
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00:00This season is the peak season, before this season we used to get only dengue patients but now we can get dengue patients all year round.
00:28But this season is a little more, we have more patients now.
00:31We can see that there is a history of 5 days of fever, after 5 days when the fever starts to go down, the patient gets sick within 48 hours.
00:50We can see that the patients come to us in a hurry, they can't eat, they vomit, or they start bleeding from somewhere.
00:57There are more problems like this.
01:03This is my baby girl.
01:05She will go to the hospital for 3 days.
01:07Last year, she tested positive for dengue.
01:12She was at home, but this morning she was in shock.
01:17She was taken to the hospital.
01:20She was given saline.
01:22Her BP was low, there was no pulse.
01:25After giving her saline, her BP and TP improved.
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