India Encephalitis 2019; 1,152 fatalities

[Ronan Kelly]

MP
/ASH/2019/43/1399
Madhya
Pradesh Ashok Nagar
Japanese
Encephalitis 01 01 23-10-19 23-10-19
Under
Control
Case reported from Gram
-Pura Chhipon, PHC
Rajpur, Block Shadora. District RRT investigated
the outbreak. State and District NVBDCP officials
were informed. Fever and larva survey conducted
in the area. The deceased was a 12 year old female.
Single sample collected and tested at DSU, Bhopal
was positive for Japanese Encephalitis. Health
education given.

AS/MAR/2019/43/1409 Assam Marigaon
Japanese
Encephalitis 01 01 01-10-19 Under
Control
Case reported from Village Uttar Saruchala, SC Saruchala
HWC, FRU Moirabari, BPHC Laharighat. District RRT
investigated the outbreak. State and District NVBDCP officials
were informed. The deceased was a 1y 3m old girl, she
presented with fever headache, altered sensorium,
unconsciousness and neck rigidity. A single CSF sample
collected and tested at GMCH, was positive for Japanese
Encephalitis by IgM ELISA. Fogging done. Health education
given.

Week 43 IDSP report: https://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l8...1577708329.pdf

[Ronan Kelly]

Uttar Pradesh
Docs Covering up Japanese Encephalitis Case Figures in Gorakhpur under Pressure by UP Govt: Akhilesh
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said he will soon release a list of children who died due to Japanese Encephalitis in Gorakhpur in the past one year.
Qazi Faraz Ahmad | News18@qazifarazahmadUpdated:January 3, 2020, 6:46 PM IST

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday attacked the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, alleging it had pressurised doctors to "manage" the number of deaths caused by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Gorakhpur. The former chief minister claimed that the "inhumane" work was done by the doctors as per directives from Adityanath.

“Our chief minister is concerned about the deaths of children in Kota, but when will he show concern about more than a thousand kids who died over the last year in Gorakhpur?" said Yadav at a press briefing in Lucknow. "The most inhumane thing done was even after knowing that the kids were suffering from JE, the doctors could not give them the right medication as they were told to keep the figures of such cases in control at any cost.”
...
Hours later, Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma contested his claim. "He (Akhilesh) needs to furnish evidence with the list and not level baseless allegations," Sharma said at a press conference.

https://www.news18.com/news/politics/up-doctors-covering-up-figures-of-japanese-encephalitis-cases-under-govt-pressure-akhilesh-yadav-2444705.html

[Ronan Kelly]

Uttar Pradesh
Akhilesh seeks probe into death of children at Gorakhpur hospital
Press Trust of India | Lucknow
Last Updated at January 6, 2020 15:45 IST

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday demanded a probe by a sitting Supreme Court or High Court judge into deaths of children at Gorakhpur Medical College.

Blood tests conducted on 1,800 children admitted in the hospital between January and October last year showed that they were suffering from encephalitis, but the government admitted only 500 such cases by "tweaking the records", he told reporters here.


He alleged that acting at the behest of the government, the doctors there described illness of the children as acute fever and claimed that around 1,500 children had died there between January and October last year.
...

https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/akhilesh-seeks-probe-into-death-of-children-at-gorakhpur-hospital-120010600657_1.html

[Ronan Kelly]

Uttar Pradesh
UP govt says JE, AES on decline, accuses Akhilesh of falsifying data

Lucknow, Jan 7 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government said on Tuesday there is decline in Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrom (AES) cases in the state, a day after Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav demanded a judicial probe into the death of children in Gorakhpur.
"In 2019, only 229 cases of JE came to the fore and 18 deaths were reported and 2,026 cases of AES came to the fore and 100 deaths were reported," UP government spokesman Sidharth Nath Singh told reporters here.

"Akhilesh is lying and giving false data of deaths. As compared to 2016, the deaths of children have come down by 65-70 per cent now," he said, adding that between 2017 and 2019, over 1.5 crore children were vaccinated.
...

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/up-govt-says-je-aes-on-decline-accuses-akhilesh-of-falsifying-data/1702547

[Ronan Kelly]

Week 48 IDSP Report: https://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l8...1579588506.pdf

CT/BAS/2019/48/1566 Chhattisgarh Baster
Japanese
Encephalitis
01 case 01fatality 21-11-19 30-11-19 Under
Surveillance
Case reported from Village/SC Rajur, Block
Tokapal. District RRT investigated the outbreak.
State and District NVBDCP officials were
informed. Active search of cases done. Pig rearing
was practiced in the community. Blood sample
collected and sent to Balirama Kashyap Memorial
Govt Medical College, was positive for JE (IgM
ELISA). Health education given regarding
personal protection measures.

[Ronan Kelly]

Week 50 IDSP report: https://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l8...1580451844.pdf

CT/BJP/2019/50/1625 Chhattisgarh Bijapur
Japanese
Encephalitis
02 cases 01 fatality 10-12-19 13-12-19 Under
Surveillance
Cases reported from Village Pinkonda
(Chindhatha Para), SHC Pinkonda, CHC Nelasnar,
Block Bhairamgarh. District RRT investigated the
outbreak. State and District NVBDCP official
were informed. House to house survey done.
Blood sample collected was positive for JE (IgM
ELISA). All cases treated. Health education given

[Ronan Kelly]

From week 1 IDSP report: https://idsp.nic.in/WriteReadData/l8...1583384078.pdf

JH/ESI/2020/01/0015 Jharkhand East Singhbhum
Japanese
Encephalitis
09 01 20-04-19 Under
Control
Cases reported from Block Jugsalai cum Golmuri. District
RRT investigated the outbreak. Cases presented with fever
and altered sensorium. A total of 83 serum samples collected
and sent to MGM Medical College Jamshedpur; 09 were
found positive for Japanese Encephalitis by IgM ELISA. All
cases treated. Health education given.
JH/ESI/2020/01/0016 Jharkhand East Singhbhum
Japanese
Encephalitis
03 01 24-08-19 Under
Control
Cases reported from Block Musabani. District RRT
investigated the outbreak. Cases presented with fever and
altered sensorium. A total of 08 serum samples were collected
and tested at MGM Medical College Jamshedpur; 03 were
found positive for Japanese Encephalitis by IgM ELISA. All
cases treated. Health education given.

KN
/KOL/2020/01/0017 Karnataka Kolar
Japanese
Encephalitis
03 00 23-12-19 Under
Control
Cases reported from Village Milathnagar, PHC/CHC
Rahamatnagar, Taluk Kolar. District RRT investigated the
outbreak. House to house survey conducted. Poor
environmental hygiene and poor personal hygiene observed in
the village. No pig persent in and around the village. No
paddy/wet field cultivation present in and around the village.
A total of 03 blood and 03 water samples collected. The 03
blood samples were found positive for Japanese Encephalitis.
All cases treated. Source reduction activities undertaken.
Health education given on prevention and control of vector
borne diseases