One in 11 affected by Chikungunya is fake news IEDCR clarifies
UNB
The (IEDCR) has objected to the news about actual numbers of Chikungunya affected people in the capital city, reports UNB.
Many mass media in Bangladesh broadcast and published the news quoting IEDCR, that at least one in 11 residents of the capital city Dhaka suffered from Chikungunya.
The news would lead to confusion about the numbers of affected people, they said in a press release on Sunday night. They said the institution conducted a survey over mobile phone in a small scale to glean some idea about the presence of the fever.
Some 4775 dwellers of the capital were contacted with this survey and some 357 people expressed that they suffered from fever with pain in joints of the body.
The survey was conducted over mobile phone so the data was not audited.
It should not be extrapolated to mean 1 in 11 residents suffered from Chikungunya.
The institution has a plan to include this survey data in further activities to glean the actual presence of chikungunya among those people.
In this situation there is no scope for decisions about the numbers of affected people in the city based on this incomplete survey, they said.
This survey data cannot represent the numbers of affected people in the wider population.
