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Mystery fever mimicking dengue confounds doctors
TNN | Aug 21, 2013, 04.47 AM IST
AHMEDABAD: The sudden spurt in cases of a viral fever that is resistant to treatment has flummoxed doctors in the city. Children are its easy prey. Constant high fever, body ache and -in some cases - declining blood platelet count, have made it difficult for doctors to diagnose the causative virus. The common adage, "four days of rest for viral and then back to work", is now a concept of yesteryears.
Physicians across the city are encountering 30 to 40 such cases a day. Even municipal hospitals, like the VS Hospital in Paldi, are reporting 60 such cases every day...
TNN | Aug 21, 2013, 04.47 AM IST
AHMEDABAD: The sudden spurt in cases of a viral fever that is resistant to treatment has flummoxed doctors in the city. Children are its easy prey. Constant high fever, body ache and -in some cases - declining blood platelet count, have made it difficult for doctors to diagnose the causative virus. The common adage, "four days of rest for viral and then back to work", is now a concept of yesteryears.
Physicians across the city are encountering 30 to 40 such cases a day. Even municipal hospitals, like the VS Hospital in Paldi, are reporting 60 such cases every day...
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