Global warming is making the concept of mutation come out of Hollywood movies and scare the population in Indian capital city Delhi, only this time the mutation is happening among Dengue viruses carried by mosquitoes. It must be noted here that the attack of Dengue in Delhi doesn’t come as surprising incident but as per the warnings sent out by World Health Organization (WHO) global warming and climate change will make dengue like vector born diseases more potent.
The number of cases of Dengue has risen alarmingly in the last two years. While the number of deaths in 2010 and 2011 were 110 and 169 respectively, the number has surpassed previous records in 2012. Genetic analysis of the virus have revealed that particularly around Delhi the virus has mutated to serotype 2 which causes a higher mortality chances among the affected patients.
Despite the medical team in Delhi making all efforts to fight back with the latest medical amenities and the Govt. spending on the awareness campaigns to involve people in maintaining proper hygienic surroundings, the mayhem seems obvious in the changing climatic scenario. As per the WHO report on Global warming, the world has warmed by approximately 0.75 degree Celsius in the last 100 years.
It requires more than a single government effort now to take control over the world temperature. A consensus among the political leadership across the world on controlling emission norms as well as a well sensitized population is the need of the hour to save human race from continually evolving menaces of the climatic changes.
