varanasi even as a short spell of showers have exposed the preparation of lack of it of the varanasi nagar nigam vnn for the monsoon season the changing weather conditions have forced district health administration to relaunch its massive antilarval drive to prevent the spread of vectorborne diseases in the city while the district malaria office also the nodal centre for control of vector borne diseases in the region and regional filaria office have completed the first round of antilarval drive in most residential areas in the city the changing weather conditions have expedited the process of relaunch of a similar driveaccording to district malaria officer ma khan two teams had been constituted under assistant malaria officers to complete the first round of antilarval spray for anopheles and aedes mosquitoes in different areas including posh colonies of the city the drive ended in the month of july also observed as antidengue month but the changing weather conditions forced a relaunch of drive that may continue even after the festive season he informedit may be mentioned here that the district health administration had also launched a massive antilarval drive in the city last year and it proved to be a successful initiative cutting down the spread of vectorborne diseases in the cityas per the recent reports of the cmo office certain new places like police camps central jail and district jail have been also included in the drive this year other efforts including onthespot collection of blood samples and changing of water from summer coolers are also likely to be started soontake light meals drink boiled watervaranasi health experts advocate taking light meals and drinking only boiled water to prevent waterborne diseases during the monsoon seasonwhile consumption of safe drinking water is the key to prevent waterborne infection in the season avoiding spicy and oily preparations are also necessary to control the spread of the infection said dr sudhakar pandey senior doctor in the epidemic cell of cmo office similarly it is better to avoid nonvegetarian dishes in this season as chances of contamination looms large in such items that may increase the possibility of food poisoning he cautionedother health experts including m rai of medicine department in banaras hindu university believe that avoiding stale and open food items is also an important precautionary measure to check the infection rate during the seasonaccording to dr arvind mishra of district fisheries department the season is the breeding period for fish and fish items should be avoided as chances of contamination increases during the seasonprecautionary measures for monsoon season consumption of safe drinking water taking light meals avoiding nonvegetarian items especially fish avoiding stale and open food personal hygienediseases of monsoon seasonwaterborne diseases diarrhoea typhoid dysentery and hepatitisvectorborne diseases malaria filaria dengue and kalaazarsource epidemic cell cmo office