Bangalore India: Chikungunya outbreak

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/C...ow/3161887.cms

Chikungunya outbreak confirmed
25 Jun 2008, 0402 hrs IST,TNN

BANGALORE: It's official: A chikungunya outbreak has hit the city. Of 21 samples sent to the Public Health Institute, seven ? all from Srirampura and surrounding areas ? tested positive for chikungunya, confirmed Dr H M Vinutha, joint director, PHI.

Dr Gangalakshmi, medical superintendent at BBMP Referral Hospital, Srirampura, said 17 new cases of chikungunya were treated on Tuesday. The disease was first reported at the hospital, where 86 cases were treated on Sunday. Seventeen patients complained of high fever and joint pain.

Chikungunya cases were reported in Malleswaram, Srirampura, Rajajinagar, Bhashyamnagar area and samples sent to PHI.

Dr Gayathri, BBMP chief medical health officer, said the cases were coming down in referral hospitals, but still being reported at private clinics and hospitals in the city.

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Chikungunya spirals in City
Bangalore, DHNS:

Instances of chikungunya continued to spiral in Bangalore City with over 260 suspected cases of the disease being reported since June 14 at K C General Hospital and Sriramapura Referral Hospital.

About 36 fresh cases were reported on Wednesday.

Most patients affected by the vector-borne disease were from Sriramapura, Ramchandrapura, Prakashnagar, Nagappa Garden, RC Pura, Bhashyam Nagar, Yeshwantpur and Malleswaram.

At the ?chikungunya ward? in K C General Hospital here, five patients were admitted in a critical condition. There was a spurt in the number of outpatients on Wednesday compared to the last two days: as against 22 cases reported on Monday (13 female and 9 male) and 14 on Tuesday (three female and 11 male), 27 cases (16 female, 11 male) had been reported by 3 pm on Wednesday.

Outpatients usually take two to five days to recover from chikungunya unless it?s severe, Senior Specialist, K C General Hospital, Dr Shivaprasad said.

At the Sriramapura Referral Hospital of the BBMP, 196 suspected chikungunya cases have been reported since June 14, with nine fresh cases being reported on Wednesday.

Of the 21 samples sent to the Public Health Institute for testing, seven cases were confirmed for chikungunya. Only five per cent of the samples of the fever cases were sufficient to diagnose the disease, Dr H N Gangalakshmi, Medical Superintendent, Sriramapura Referral Hospital, said.

Treatment, however, does not depend on the confirmation of the tests as patients were being treated based on symptoms, she pointed out.

Suspected cases of the vector-borne disease have been trickling in at private hospitals too. Dr Chowti, Chief of Medicine, Mallya Hospital said while the number of cases reported in the hospital were not as high as it was two years ago, it could rise after the rains.

Raging in DK dt

Meanwhile, chikungunya is raging in Dakshina Kannada district with the number of suspected cases touching 20,000.

Kodagu, Mysore and Belgaum districts have reported a few hundred instances each of the disease.

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Friday, June 27, 2008 6:11:58 PM (IST)
Bangalore: Chikungunya: 48 Cases Reported in Three Days

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Bangalore, Jun 27: Although the Public Health Institute (PHI) has officially declared that there is an outbreak of chikungunya in the city, the disease is waning, with only 48 new cases reported in the past three days.

"Further, the outbreak is confined to Srirampuram and Bhashyamnagar," official sources told this website's newspaper.

While more blood samples were sent for testing on Thursday, seven of the 21 samples sent earlier are said to be positive. Around 198 chikungunya cases have been reported in the city so far.

A public awareness campaign has been launched to check the disease, with household surveys, fumigation and cleaning surroundings.

KC General Hospital, which has created a separate ward for chikungunya cases, treated 23 cases as out-patients on Thursday. Eleven of these were female patients.

"Nine others have been admitted," said Dr Vishwaradhya, Health Superintendent of the Hospital.

Shiv Prasad, senior physician of the Referral Hospital of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Srirampuram, said that three suspected cases were registered on Wednesday, and the laboratory results of the blood samples, sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Victoria Hospital, were being awaited.

"We are providing full support to the BBMP to execute measures such as surveillance, supply of medicines and information activities to contain the disease. We have also made arrangements for the distribution of ayurvedic and homoeopathic medicines," Madan Gopal, Principal Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, said.

No chikungunya cases have been registered at Bowring or Victoria hospitals so far.

Dr Prasanna, consulting physician and pediatrician, said that the accumulation of water should be avoided and only boiled water should be consumed.

"In case of high fever, the patient should seek immediate medical help. Fogging is another way to tackle the problem," he said.

"The symptoms of chikungunya are high fever, sometimes accompanied by shivering, headache, painful joints and muscular pain," Dr Prasanna said.