Bhutan - Outbreak of acute respiratory infection in Lajab gewog?s community school under control

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Jun 13, 2013

Lajab CS ARI outbreak under control

An outbreak of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in Lajab gewog?s community school, Dagana that was reported in the first week of June has now been brought under control, district health officials said.

Almost all of the school?s 159 students were infected since the first case was reported on June 2. The number of infections shot up to 80 on June 7.

?Since the number of children infected was increasing over the past few days, we sent a team of health officials, including a doctor and lab technicians, to assess the situation and help in treatment,? dzongkhag health officer, Kalo Drukpa, said.
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He said children suffered from headache, cough, running nose, and fever, among others symptoms that are associated with seasonal flu.

However, district health officials have sent samples collected from severely infected students for examination, which reached the public health laboratory in Thimphu yesterday.
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By Tshering Palden

http://www.kuenselonline.com/lajab-cs-ari-outbreak-under-control/