Dengue cases

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Source: http://www.centralchronicle.com/view...rticleID=12502

32 cases of dengue in State
Posted On Monday, August 17, 2009

By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, Aug 17

Special examination facility of dengue fever has been made available in five medical colleges of the State. To monitor the disease a control room has been opened in JP Hospital premises in State capital whose telephone number is 0755-2552538.

Thirty-two cases of dengue have been identified in various districts of State. To stop Dengue from spreading Health Department has given instructions to all the ground level squad to remain alert and treat patients immediately. Medicines of Dengue are being made available in hospitals and insecticides have been provided for spraying. Public cooperation is of extreme importance to contain this disease because the disease is related to the breeding of aedes mosquito in the house. Health Department has asked the citizens to remain aware about the disease.

Preventive measures:
Dengue fever is due to Den virus. This virus spreads by the biting of aedes mosquito. This mosquito bites during daytime. When the person suffers from this disease then he runs temperature of 102 degrees to 104 degrees, which remains for 2 to 7 days. Fever is accompanies with severe headache, pain near eyes, pain in the joints, pain in muscles and spots on the body. Facility of treatment of this fever is available in all the hospitals. When a person gets infected by dengue repeatedly then dengue can assume hazardous proportions. Signs of the disease are spots of blood on body, bleeding of gums and reduction in number of platelets in blood test. Such a patient should take treatment in hospital where facility of blood testis available. In five medical colleges of State mainly Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Rewa special examination facility of dengue has been made available.

Mosquitoes, which spread dengue breed in water, kept on the roof of houses in containers and water behind houses. They can breed in water containers, cement tanks, drums, earthen pots, tyres, money plant grown in glass, tray below fridge and tray below the pot. Besides these places these mosquitoes breed on the roof of houses, backyard of houses where rainwater accumulates in broken utensils. If water is seen in container then larvae can be seen in it. These larvae develop into mosquito in seven days. Therefore it is very clear that to check dengue disease it is necessary to stop breeding of mosquitoes. If patients having symptoms of dengue are found in some area then information can be given on JP hospital premises over the phone number 0755-2552538.

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Dengue death toll rises to 8 in MP
Category ? Bhopal Posted On Thursday, September 03, 2009
By Our Staff Reporter

Bhopal, Sept 3:
With the death of a Shajapur district-resident girl at a private hospital in Indore, the total number of dengue deaths in the Madhya Pradesh raised to eight in a month.
''Dengue symptoms were detected five days back in Class XII student Rukhsaar (17) who died yesterday,'' State Health Director Ashok Sharma said here today.
Samples of 87 dengue suspects were taken in which 47 tested positive. All these victims were recovered well and returned to their homes after getting treatment from different hospitals of the state.
''After swine flu came to fore, samples of 84 suspects have been sent to Delhi and Pune as a precautionary measure,'' he said, adding that reports of 45 suspects were yet to be received.
Dr Sharma said that swine flu virus was found in three people here and one in Indore but all of them were recovered. However, people - who were in contact - with the victims were also tested and no symptom were detected in them.
''There is nothing to concern over swine flu in the state and the state government has adopted several steps to combat it,'' he said.
Besides, providing facility of swine flu test in all the medical colleges, medicines were also provided to the district hospitals. Awareness programmes were also carried out in this direction, he added.

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Source: http://www.samaylive.com/news/16-den...al/654867.html

16 dengue cases reported in Bhopal

(Source: IANS)
Published: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 at 15:28 IST

Bhopal: At least 16 cases of dengue have been reported from this Madhya Pradesh capital, a health department official said Monday.

"The number of dengue cases here has touched 16. They have been confirmed through ELISA test at the Gandhi Medical College. However, though the dengue has spread in almost all parts of the city, what is positive is the change in spread of dengue pattern that has restricted the spread of the disease," said District Malaria Officer Padmakar Tripathi.


"Normally, it is presumed that dengue that hits a colony or area affects 50-100 families in a row but this time it is not so. It is just hitting one or two persons at a particular place," he said.


"The department will float a plan to cover urban slum areas where water-logging is rampant and perilous. The department, as of now, is busy in covering affected areas but soon slums of the city would also be tracked down," said Tripathi.


He said that in the past one month, eight people have succumbed to the disease in the state.

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* Dengue claims two lives in Madhya Pradesh

STAFF WRITER 14:6 HRS IST

Bhopal, Sep 8 (PTI) A teenage girl died of dengue in a private hospital here taking the toll to two in Madhya Pradesh within a week, official sources said today.

Nineteen-year-old Shweta Mishra of Mandideep, who was suffering from dengue coupled with haemorrhagic fever breathed her last in Charak Hospital yesterday, they said.

She was admitted to the hospital on September 1 and later put on ventilator by the fifth, they said adding that her blood samples tested positive for dengue.

With Mishra's demise, the death toll due to dengue in Madhya Pradesh has gone to two with last week a three-year-old in Indore dying of the disease, the sources said.

Dengue has spread in and around Bhopal besides Indore, they said adding that around 30 cases of dengue have been reported in the state capital alone.

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Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report...5-days_1297640

Dengue spread refuses to die down in MP, claims 7 in 15 days
PTI
Sunday, October 11, 2009 15:07 IST

Bhopal: The figure of positive cases of dengue has gone up to 247 as the spread of the disease refuses to die down in Madhya Pradesh.

Dengue has claimed seven lives in the state in last 15 days.

As per the latest data, a total of 968 samples for dengue test were taken in the state and of these 247 were diagnosed positive while two reports were still awaited from Gandhi Medical College here, regional joint director health, Bhopal
Division, Dr B S Ohri told PTI.

Bhopal, Indore and Balaghat were identified as worst affected where 179 cases were tested positive, he said.

Joint director health, Dr Amarnath Mittal said that so far seven Dengue deaths were recorded in the state in 15 days.

Of these Balaghat recorded the maximum three while Bhopal, Indore, Rajgarh and Raisen recorded one death each, he said.

0hree deaths were recorded in rural areas while four took place in different city hospitals, Mittal said. Balaghat district was a matter of concern where three dengue deaths were recorded out of only 17 cases diagnosed positive from 27 samples collected, he said.

The death ratio of Balghat was much higher than Bhopal and Indore where only two deaths were recorded out of 162 positive cases, he said.

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Experts of Delhi conducts probe on dengue
Category ? Bhopal Posted On Monday, October 12, 2009

By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, Oct 12:
A team of experts, which has arrived from Delhi, constituted three teams and conducted especial probe in 24 dengue affected areas of City. Along with this they took samples of those patients also who are not suffering from dengue fever but their number of platelets is less.
Under the guidance of dengue fever expert of Delhi Dr Kalpana Barua and National Institute of Communicable Disease Apeadeologist Dr Pankaj Sharma three teams of experts were constituted and they examined dengue affected families of 24 dengue affected areas. The probe team conducted survey of larvae and dengue fever. This team which has been summoned from Delhi also toured Hamidia Hospital and other private hospitals of Bhopal.
They examined the dengue-affected patients and other patients who do not have dengue fever but number of their platelets is less. These samples will be tested in laboratories situated in Delhi. The experts also conducted review of widespread dengue fever and malaria in Bhopal. They sought information in the meeting about the measures taken for checking these diseases. They informed about the future strategy for the prevention of these diseases.

Fogging machines deployed for killing of mosquitoes
Bhopal, Oct 12:
In all the 24 dengue-affected areas of the State capital the Malaria department and Bhopal Municipal Corporation are jointly emitting smoke by fogging machine and killing the mosquitoes. This drive was started on October 9.
Joint Director Health Bhopal division Dr AN Mittal informed that District Malaria office has constituted 15 teams for this work which are emitting mosquito killer smoke in the colonies and localities falling in the wards. These mobile teams are on continuous drive in these areas. Seeing the large number of mosquitoes the number of machines has been increased to 17.
Dr Mittal further said that these teams are taking advice and guidance from local corporators, residents and social workers. The work of these teams is being continuously monitored and their daily report is being sought. Dr Mittal has appealed to the citizens of Bhopal to cooperate with the teams, which are emitting smoke from fogging machines, which kills mosquitoes and help in containing the deadly disease dengue.