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This seems like a silly scare article. Dr. Day's comment at the bottom gives an indication of the number of AFP cases in India, as well as some of the causes. In our rolling report thread, there are many examples of AFP cases mostly being reported from Bihar.
2 wks after eradication, 'polio' resurfaces
Soumen Datta & Subhendu Maiti, Hindustan Times
Baruipur/Kolkata, March 13, 2012 Email to Author
First Published: 01:11 IST(13/3/2012)
Last Updated: 01:12 IST(13/3/2012)
Barely two weeks after World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India as a polio-free nation, an 18-month-old female child was admitted to a state-run hospital in Kolkata with suspected polio on Monday.
The child, Sumi, a resident of Indrabala village near Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, was admitted with symptoms of paralysis with disability in movement and fever.
The child?s stool samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata for confirmatory tests. The reports are expected next week.
?It is a suspected case of polio. In medical parlance, the symptoms are called acute flaccid paralysis. The patient is under observation,? Kumar Kanti Das, superintendent of Baruipur subdivisional hospital (BSH), said.
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If Sumi is indeed afflicted with polio, it will raise questions about the efficacy of the pulse polio drives that the administration organises with fanfare.
Comment by Dr Abhijit Dey
Another foolish story by HT... Dont Panic... this was case of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)... there are 40 such case in 2012 already reported in 24 Parganas (S) only. The child is completely ok now.. it was a case of transient flaccidity. stool is being collected (like any other AFP case). Dont Panic...
there will be atleast 1 AFP case/1lakh under15 population/year even after polio eradication (cause- traumatic neuritis, GB, Transverse myelitis, other viral neuritis etc)
This seems like a silly scare article. Dr. Day's comment at the bottom gives an indication of the number of AFP cases in India, as well as some of the causes. In our rolling report thread, there are many examples of AFP cases mostly being reported from Bihar.
2 wks after eradication, 'polio' resurfaces
Soumen Datta & Subhendu Maiti, Hindustan Times
Baruipur/Kolkata, March 13, 2012 Email to Author
First Published: 01:11 IST(13/3/2012)
Last Updated: 01:12 IST(13/3/2012)
Barely two weeks after World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India as a polio-free nation, an 18-month-old female child was admitted to a state-run hospital in Kolkata with suspected polio on Monday.
The child, Sumi, a resident of Indrabala village near Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, was admitted with symptoms of paralysis with disability in movement and fever.
The child?s stool samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune and School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata for confirmatory tests. The reports are expected next week.
?It is a suspected case of polio. In medical parlance, the symptoms are called acute flaccid paralysis. The patient is under observation,? Kumar Kanti Das, superintendent of Baruipur subdivisional hospital (BSH), said.
...
If Sumi is indeed afflicted with polio, it will raise questions about the efficacy of the pulse polio drives that the administration organises with fanfare.
Comment by Dr Abhijit Dey
Another foolish story by HT... Dont Panic... this was case of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)... there are 40 such case in 2012 already reported in 24 Parganas (S) only. The child is completely ok now.. it was a case of transient flaccidity. stool is being collected (like any other AFP case). Dont Panic...
there will be atleast 1 AFP case/1lakh under15 population/year even after polio eradication (cause- traumatic neuritis, GB, Transverse myelitis, other viral neuritis etc)
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