A small bite of the aedes aegypti mosquito has shark-sized outcomes.
There are nearly 432 official cases of chikungunya, along with roughly 400 cases of dengue, in the national capital.
At first, 31- year-old Pankaj experienced only a nagging pain in his hands and legs. He dismissed it thinking it’s the result of a longer-than-usual gym session. Overnight his condition slipped. When he went to the doctor, it felt like a massive flu attack combined with arthritis; he was shivering, his entire body covered in orange bumps, and was totally wiped out.
Doctors diagnosed him with chikungunya.
Three-weeks later he has recovered, but his father and house help are now under the scanner.
Talk to any doctor in the capital and they say the official statistic (432 at the time of publication) doesn’t paint the right picture. Yet the civic authorities in Delhi maintain there is just “a spike in the infection cases” and “no outbreak”.
Where does this leave you? Scroll below to get a 360-degree perspective on the disease caused by the ‘cockroach of mosquitoes’: