Re: Dengue in India 2011
Re: Dengue in India 2011
First dengue death in Orissa
Riyan Ramanath V , TNN | Jul 20, 2011, 12.26am IST
BALANGIR: In the first ever case of casualty due to vector-borne dengu fever in Orissa, a youth of Balangir was confirmed to have died on Monday in a private nursing home in Burla. Although the district health officials are yet to confirm the report officially, they admitted the blood sample of the patient tested at a private pathology at Burla revealed dengu positive.
After initial complaint of high fever and acute muscle pain by Dipti Prakash Rai, 35, a resident of Balangir town, doctors at Balangir police hospital suspected dengu and asked him to undergo tests. The test (screening test on card method) revealed positive for dengu (1gh, 1gm) with NSi antigen positive.
Rai initially consulted the police hospital doctor T K Palit. "When he came to me he was shivering. He complained of severe muscle pain and headache. All tests including malaria tested negative. Then I asked him to get a dengu test done," the doctor said. According to Palit, Rai exhibited a low platelet count, which proved fatal in his case. "While normally the platelet count should be more than one lakh, the patient had only 45,000," Palit said.
What was puzzling for the doctor was that Rai had no history of travelling. It is likely he could have been infected in Balangir, most possibly through an outsider who had dengu, Palit said.
Meanwhile, district health officials have sounded an alert here. The chief district medical officer (CDMO) Brikant Kindo said he had a discussion with the collector to tackle the situation. "We have asked the doctors to collect blood samples of the relatives of the patient," Kindo said, adding there is no need to panic as it is yet to be ascertained whether dengu originated in Balangir.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...engue-death-in-Orissa/articleshow/9289423.cms
