Dengue fever is an infectious mosquito borne disease caused by dengue virus. Its symptoms include fever, head ache, muscle and joint pains and rash resembling measles. Even though there are 3000 types of mosquitoes, only 80 types of mosquitoes bite us. It takes five days for a mosquito to develop from an egg into an adult. Adult mosquitoes mate within the first few days after emerging. They use a serrated proboscis to pierce the skin and suck blood. Mosquitoes have been considered as the world’s deadliest animal by many countries. Major causes, leading to dengue fever in the study area were illustrated high rates of poverty, illiteracy and bad health status and low earning. Since they do not have any formal education facilities, they are engaged in informal sectors, which are more harmful to them. Though accident is a common factor in these sectors, they are more vulnerable to all types of communicable diseases and malnutrition which causes poor immune to the body system.
