Yoga helps drive mosquito borne diseases

With 88 fresh cases registered taking the total number of cases suffering from dengue so far to 1,908 in the capital, Chikungunya is playing havoc in south India with over 100 deaths and over 40,000 people found infected.

Yoga has the potential to strengthen a person's immunity to fight a disease like Chikungunya, claims a Yoga instructor in Bangalore.

People who underwent yoga are not attacked by the disease, despite all their family members suffer from it. If at all they get affected by chance, it was cured within three days.

Dengue is spread by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, with symptoms such as fever, severe headache, joint and muscular pains, vomiting and rashes. Dengue fever, for which there is no vaccine, causes excruciating muscle and joint pains, high fever and severe headaches.

Like dengue, there is no vaccine for Chikungunya, and at best, symptoms can be countered through painkillers, intake of plenty of fluids and lots of rest.

Though the fever usually resolves on its own within three to seven days but the joint pains persist for months or even years.