VECTOR BORNE DISEASES

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• There has been a Year on year, drop in malaria, dengue and chikungunya cases.
  
  
• In 2018, the country recorded 4,29,928 cases of malaria, 1,01,192 cases of dengue, and 57,813 clinically suspected cases of chikungunya. For each of these diseases, the number of cases was less than in 2017, when there were 8,44,558 cases of malaria, 1,88,401 of dengue and 67,769 of chikungunya.
  
  
• The highest number of malaria cases in 2018 was recorded in Uttar Pradesh, at 86,486.
  
  
• For dengue, Punjab recorded the highest number of cases in 2018, at 14,890.
  
  
• For clinically suspected cases of chikungunya, the highest count was 20,411 in Karnataka.