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  • #31
    Re: Mystery illness kills at least 20 in Nepal in the last 10 days

    Any body know what happened to our Mystery Illnesss? The lab reports of some knd should be back by now I woudl guess and are others sick? I get concerned about the silence.
    TM


    Originally posted by Snowy Owl
    Mystery illness kills at least 20 in Nepal
    http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=B145880

    All thanks to Reuters for their Public Health Information Services

    KATHMANDU, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A mysterious disease has killed at least 20 people in two villages of west Nepal over the past 10 days, and hundreds more are sick, a health official said on Tuesday.

    "People suddenly catch high fever, start shivering, faint and then die," said Ram Bahadur Chand, a senior official the district public health office in Nepalgunj, 321 km (201 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu.

    Local media reports put the death toll at 36 from four remote villages near Nepalgunj.

    "We have 20 confirmed deaths so far and more than 300 people are suffering from the unknown disease," Chand told Reuters.

    He said 200 blood samples had been collected and medical workers had reached the affected villages.

    Each year Nepal's rickety health infrastructure run by a mere 1300 doctors in 87 hospitals around the country deals with hundreds of thousands of cases of pneumonia, cholera, fever, diarrhoea and tuberculosis.

    Many of the poor Himalayan nation's 26 million people are either unable to afford the cost of medical treatment or do not have access to basic health care.

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    • #32
      Re: Mystery illness kills at least 20 in Nepal in the last 10 days

      The diagnosis does not fit the classical symptoms, but malaria has been called the "great imitator" (also used to described 1918 influenza). Cough was one of the symptoms mentioned in previous reports on this outbreak

      http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=90199

      Banke epidemic is ?cerebral malaria?

      PR

      GANGAPUR (BANKE), Nov 1 - A team of doctors, who reached here Wednesday, have diagnosed the "unidentified" epidemic that has already claimed 36 lives in the area as 'cerebral malaria', after examining blood samples from the patients.

      "After tests we are fully convinced that it is malaria. We have referred the seriously ill to hospitals," said Dr Mahesh Maskey, advisor to the Ministry of Health.

      Medical teams have been running health camps at Piprahawa of Phattepur VDC and Sonbarsa village of Gangapur VDC. Hundreds of locals at Phattepur, Gangapur, Holiya and Narainapur have been suffering from the malady doctors said.

      3 more die

      The epidemic claimed three more lives in Phattepur and Narainapur villages on Wednesday. According to locals, Baur Khan, 40, and Satan Baskor, 4, of Narainapur and Kebal Nau, 8, of Phattepur-5 died of the illness.

      Posted on: 2006-11-01 21:33:12 (Server Time)
      What are the characteristics of a malaria attack?

      * Fever and shivering. The attack begins with fever, with the temperature rising as high as 40?C and falling again over a period of several hours.

      * A poor general condition, feeling unwell and having headaches like influenza.

      * Diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting often occur as well.
      http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/travel/di...ia_disease.htm
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      • #33
        Re: Mystery illness kills at least 20 in Nepal in the last 10 days

        Looks like it was/is "malaria"... yet while I know what cerebral malaria is, I'm not sure about "plus modem falsifoam." See the following article, at least for what's being reported...

        [ 2006-11-3 ]
        Disease diagnosed as Cerebral Malaria, 31 died, 700 affected

        NEPALGUNJ, Nov. 2: The unidentified epidemic that spread in five VDCs of Banke district across the Rapti River has been identified as cerebral malaria infected from a plus modem falsifoam, a virus. [...]

        http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=5592

        TMF
        Last edited by tmf; November 4, 2006, 05:23 PM.

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        • #34
          Re: Mystery illness kills at least 20 in Nepal in the last 10 days

          Since malaria is endemic in this area, shouldn't the people know what it's symptoms are. I would question what the authorites do rather than what they say.
          Last edited by Sally Furniss; November 4, 2006, 05:16 PM.

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          • #35
            Lancet - Cerebral Malaria article

            http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...ed=1#post44785

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            • #36
              Re: Nepal - Emerging Disease



              From site above: Distribution of Malaria in Asia....




              Nepal: Rural areas in the Terai and Hill Districts of Bara, Dhanukha, Kapilvastu, Mahotari, Parsa, Rautahat, Rupendehi and Sarlahi, and especially along the Indian border; at altitudes lower than 1,200 meters; no risk in Kathmandu and typical Himalayan treks; Predominantly due to P. vivax, also P. falciparum

              What is the altitude of villages involved?


              1745 Meters.....

              Also some confusion about where villages are. Dadeldhura is in extreme far west of Nepal, not Midwest.

              Originally posted by Snowy Owl
              'Mystery' disease kills 8 in Nepal
              http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/Health/20061015/480106.html

              Kathmandu | October 15, 2006 11:15:06 AM IST
              An outbreak of an unidentified "mystery" disease in a remote village claimed eight lives including four children in far west Nepal in the past two weeks, a newspaper reported Sunday.

              The English language daily Kathmandu Post said that the outbreak of the disease in Belapur village in Dadeldhura district, about 525-km west of the capital, created "lots of problems" for the villagers there and in adjoining villages, as over 400 people were reported sick with the disease.

              Kathmandu Post reported that there were no health workers to staff the village health post in Belapur village, and even the district hospital at the district headquarters in Dadeldhura was without a doctor.





              Wikipedia says Banke District is in Mid Western section of Nepal

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              KATHMANDU: The mystery disease that has spread in some villages of Banke district in mid-western Nepal for the past two weeks was diagnosed as cerebral malaria, The Himalayan Times reported on Thursday.


              Sorry for my pathetic quoting capability....Still you get the point. Did they diagnosis cerebral malaria in the far western district from the mid western district?
              Last edited by Sally Furniss; November 4, 2006, 10:28 PM. Reason: Fixing quote
              Judith --

              What the method does not allow for cannot be proven or disproven using it.

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