New Delhi, June 25 -- In recent years, the term "seasonal" has lost its relevance when discussing diseases like dengue fever because once thought to be confined to specific times of the year, dengue outbreaks have now become a year-round nightmare, especially in regions like South Asia the culprit - climate change. The convergence of longer monsoon seasons, rising temperatures and altered mosquito behaviours has shattered the traditional understanding of dengue's seasonality, transforming it into a perpetual threat that knows no boundaries.

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Prasad Phadke, Founder and CEO at Eco BioTraps and Susanta Kumar Ghosh, Scientific Advisor and Former ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research in Bangalore, revea...