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Dhaka's two city corporations choose where to send mosquito crews from a larval index
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Dhaka's two city corporations choose where to send mosquito crews from a larval index
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Surveyors sample households ward by ward and score each ward on the Breteau Index — positive containers per 100 houses inspected, where anything above 20 is treated as the danger line
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alongside the House, Container and Pupa indices
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Dhaka South City Corporation ran the survey under its own management for the first time in May 2026
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36 field workers, 2,250 households, thirty in each of its 75 wards, twelve days, recorded on the KoboToolbox platform
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The May 2026 round found Aedes larvae or pupae in 281 of the 2,238 households inspected
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put 63 of Dhaka South's 75 wards above the threshold, 27 of them at extreme risk
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35.23 per cent of the infested premises were multi-storey buildings
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Dhaka South ran a five-day crash programme in those 27 wards from 7 June and said it would extend it to the 36 moderately risky wards the following week
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Dhaka North had announced 53 Saturday cleanup drives between March and May in the 25 wards that IEDCR and health directorate surveys named as most vulnerable
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its own survey in mid-June recorded Breteau values from 20 to 73.33 across five high-risk areas
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Entomologists say there is no field-level survey to assess whether the control effort works
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the ward at the top of the index is the ward the crews are sent to, and Dhaka South calls that a survey-based, data-driven strategy rather than routine mosquito control
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Dhaka South's own chief health officer was worried enough in February 2026 to convene a committee — chaired by the waste chief and deliberately excluding health department officials — to establish whether the insecticides kill anything in the field
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the national dengue dashboard breaks its case counts down to the two city corporations and no further
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a peer-reviewed study of the 2023 outbreak found captured only cases reported in government-approved hospitals, with the true total estimated at four times the reported one
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src-968ce8f31b617f65Bangladesh's state news agency on the day DSCC inaugurated the survey. States that DSCC ran a scientific pre-monsoon Aedes larvae survey under its own management for the first time, and gives the method: 2,250 sample houses, 30 from each of the corporation's 75 wards, a 12-day survey by 36 field workers drawn from DSCC and the Communicable Disease Control wing of DGHS, with data collected on KoboToolbox.
src-aae73327944e038aThe results and the response in one piece. Carries the survey dates (12 to 23 May), the four entomological indicators used (Breteau, House, Container and Pupa), 63 of 75 wards above the threshold with 27 highly vulnerable, 281 infested households out of 2,238 visited, 35.23 per cent of them multi-storey, and the five-day crash programme in the 27 high-risk wards from 7 June extending to 36 moderately risky wards the week after. Quotes the DSCC administrator describing a survey-based, data-driven strategy rather than routine mosquito control.
src-77dd02cbbf14246aIndependent daily reporting the same announcement, made at a DSCC event titled 'Presentation of Pre-Monsoon Aedes Larvae Survey Results and Action Plan'. Confirms the 36-member joint DSCC/DGHS team, the 2,250 households, KoboToolbox, the 63/27 ward split and the crash programme, and adds that the programme is jointly coordinated by DSCC's Health Department and Waste Management Department.
src-6bf9d9f1f109306aThe national version of the same instrument a year earlier: a pre-monsoon survey run jointly by the DGHS Communicable Disease Control programme and IEDCR across 99 wards of the two corporations in February, March and May 2025. Defines the Breteau Index as positive containers per 100 houses inspected and gives 20 as the threshold above which the situation is treated as uncontrollable. Lists the 13 wards that exceeded it with their individual index values, and records that the report urged a year-round larvicidal programme in wards with a high Breteau and House Index.
src-885b6c6991c3fe6cThe Dhaka North half of the same mechanism. States that IEDCR and DGHS surveys identified 25 DNCC wards as most vulnerable to Aedes mosquitoes, and that 53 'Saturday's Pledge' campaigns would run in those 25 wards from March to May, every Saturday from 8am to noon, jointly by DNCC's Health and Waste Management departments with the corporation's entomologists.
src-1dea4ab6ca1b292bIndependent confirmation of the DSCC 63/27 result and the source for Dhaka North's own surveillance round of 12 to 16 June 2026, which recorded Breteau values from 20 to 73.33 across five high-risk areas with an average above 40. Quotes DNCC's chief health officer. Also carries larval densities from outside Dhaka that are higher than the capital's, which is why the entry does not claim Dhaka is the worst-affected place.
src-f14e67f119bc8f47The operator auditing itself. DSCC's chief health officer prompted the formation of a committee to establish whether the insecticides actually kill mosquitoes in the field; to keep it neutral, no health department officials sit on it and the chief waste management officer chairs it. Also gives the staffing rule (seven larvicide workers per ward in the morning, six fogging in the afternoon, 1,030 workers in total) and a reporter's two-hour tour of Ward 20 that found none of them.
src-3972ac5119d0c41dIndependent entomologists on the missing half of the loop. Manjur A Chowdhury, former president of the Bangladesh Zoological Society, states there is no field-level survey to assess whether the dengue control efforts are effective, and that fewer than one in ten mosquitoes die after fogging. GM Saifur Rahman argues the effort lacks centralised data on which areas hold the most Aedes and where patients come from.
src-f50025e006b4731fCurrency check, and the most recent confirmation that DSCC ran the pre-monsoon larva survey under its own management for the first time this year. Also records that DNCC's distinctive contribution this season was an awareness campaign built on music, and gives DGHS national case and death totals to 13 August for 2026 against 2025 — national figures, not Dhaka ones.
src-695b76b1650e9399Peer-reviewed analysis of the 2023 outbreak, used only for what the national case count is and is not. States that because surveillance included only cases reported in government-approved hospitals there was significant underreporting, and that the estimated number of dengue cases is four times greater than the reported number. Date taken from Crossref (issued 2024-02-01; online 2024-02-02) for DOI 10.1093/ofid/ofae066.
src-67fffd5b9de5baf2The live national dengue dashboard run by the DGHS Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room, updated daily from the dengue press release. Its geography stops at the division and city-corporation level — cases and deaths by division and city corporation, and separate totals for cases inside and outside city corporations — with no ward breakdown, which is why the case data cannot be laid over the ward larval index. A live dashboard states no publication date.
src-184b06be238f6027The government's own record of a multi-stakeholder dengue workshop convened by the Local Government Division under the World Bank-supported Improving Urban Public Health Services Project. Names the gaps in the government's own words: incomplete disease surveillance data limiting timely decision-making, absence of baseline data on vector populations and no sentinel surveillance system, a shortage of trained entomologists, and — from Prof. Rashedul Islam — that current dengue surveillance is hospital-based. Hosted on the ministry's object storage; the document itself states no date, and the year and month in the storage path are an upload path, not a publication date.
src-d952ad30420063d4Carries the DGHS entomologist's statement that the Aedes surveys are conducted in Dhaka at pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon, which establishes the cadence. Also the honest measure of the separate citizen-science app: Mosquito Alert, rolled out by the research institute icddr,b in September 2025, had 227 participants by mid-April 2026 and its scientist describes the operation as limited in scale for lack of manpower and logistics.