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  • Mysterious disease similar to dengue reported

    Source: http://www.centralchronicle.com/view...rticleID=17226

    Dengue, Malaria out of control
    Posted On Monday, October 19, 2009
    Bhopal, Oct 19:

    Madhya Pradesh is sick with all sorts of diseases erupting through unbeatable mosquitoes. All efforts of the health department turn futile, crores of rupees go down the drain and hospitals are now hanging bill boards of `House Full, no beds". Lakhs of patients of malaria and dengue keep flooding hospitals with no respite to plights and pain. More than 25000 malaria patients have been registered in government hospitals across the state while more than 42 lakh people undertook malaria tests during first seven months of the year. A state level Malaria control room has also been set up, just as a formality. Bhopal is now under malaria siege with more than 20000 patients victimized by Anopheles. Dengue is another killer disease that seems to be gripping the district. A similar disease has also shown up and doctors are yet to find its antidote. All patient wards are full in government hospitals and no medicines are available. Still the Health Department keeps sleeping with no worry.
    According to government sources lakhs of rupees are spent annually to ascertain cap on malaria and other mosquito bound diseases. This money is sent to all districts, but like every year, no effort is done on ground levels to destroy larvae or mosquitoes.

    A mysterious disease having symptoms like dengue has also erupted in The capital city. Doctors are totally unaware about the new epidemic and have been caught unawares. They have collected samples and sent them for testing to a research laboratory and are waiting for test reports before they could commence any sort of preventive methods.
    A mysterious disease with dengue-like symptoms caused by an unknown virus has affected people in the state capital and various districts in Madhya Pradesh. Private hospitals in the state capital have put up boards stating that beds were not available for patients.
    Eminent doctor Yogesh Malhotra told here that he had never seen outbreak of this kind of disease in his medical career. While the cases of dengue are coming, things have become complex due to cases of the new disease, he added.

    Health Director Ashok Sharma said that cases related to the mysterious disease were coming constantly. Samples of a few patients had been sent to New Delhi-based National Institute for Communicable Disease.
    Platelet count reduces when affected by the mysterious disease much like in dengue. With only a few hospitals making platelets available for patients, difficulties of affected and doctors had increased.


    Dr Anil Gupta, a private nursing home director, said dengue had already created panic among people. The outbreak of new disease with dengue-like symptoms has increased the fear. He admitted that private hospitals were unable to arrange facilities related to providing treatment due to spurt in the number of patients.
    Dr Yogesh Malhotra said the outbreak could increase further given maximum temperature hovering around 34 degree Celsius.
    Recently, 2,228 people had tested positive to dengue. Of them, 31 people had died. The number of affected people had been found to be more in Bhopal and Indore.
    Adhir Kumar Saxena

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    Re: Mysterious disease similar to dengue reported

    Source: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/...100264172.html

    Mysterious viral fever grips Madhya Pradesh
    October 22nd, 2009 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS Tell a Friend -

    Bhopal, Oct 22 (IANS) A mysterious viral fever which causes a drop in platelet counts and has dengue-like symptoms is baffling doctors in Madhya Pradesh, officials said Thursday.
    The spread of the mysterious disease has become a cause of concern for the medical fraternity and for citizens. Doctors say that this unknown viral strain causes a steep fall in leukocyte and thrombocyte counts as well.

    ?This mysterious viral strain needs to be researched as it is making platelet and leukocyte counts plummet, though all test reports for dengue are coming negative,? Bhopal District Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Deepesh Verma told IANS.

    Recently a team of doctors from Delhi also visited the state after the health department here wrote to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), requesting it to send a team of doctors to study this unidentified viral strain. The health authorities also requested for help in diagnosing and treating this mysterious viral fever effectively.

    However, guidelines are yet to come in from the team of doctors that visited the state last week, sources in the health directorate said. Things have reached such a point that private hospitals in the state capital have put up boards stating that beds are not available, a health official said.

    ?I have never seen an outbreak of this kind of disease in my medical career spanning more than three decades. While the number of dengue cases is increasing by the day, this new virus which is yet to be identified has made things more complex,? Yogesh Malhotra, a prominent city doctor, told IANS.

    Health director Ashok Sharma said that cases related to the mysterious disease were constantly coming to light and samples of a few patients had also been sent to the NICD. ?We are waiting for the reports to come,? he said.

    ?While dengue has already created panic among people, the outbreak of the new disease with dengue-like symptoms has further increased complications as even private hospitals are unable to arrange treatment facilities due to the spurt in the number of patients,? said Anil Gupta, a doctor and a director of a private nursing home.

    Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/...#ixzz0UfYkHUA8

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