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Mystery fever baffles doctors
Doctors here are baffled over the spread of a mysterious fever that has all symptoms of dengue, but serological tests do not confirm what the symptoms suggest...
Updated on: 10/13/2010
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Sirsa
Doctors here are baffled over the spread of a mysterious fever that has all symptoms of dengue, but serological tests do not confirm what the symptoms suggest.
A large number of patients have been visiting doctors for the past several days in various towns of Fatehabad and Sirsa districts, where the platelet count of patients has shown a sharp decrease, a condition reported in dengue.
“We have been receiving patients, who come with complaints of fever and their platelet count starts falling drastically,” said Dr HC Dahiya, a physician from Fatehabad.
Dr Sunil Sethi, a physician from Tohana, said the symptoms in these patients were like dengue, but serological tests confirmed that these were not cases of dengue.
The patients, he said, started recovering after a few days and their platelet count, that came down to below one lakh from the normal three lakh or more, started improving gradually.
In some instances, more than one patients from a family have visited doctors with this complaint within a short period, suggesting that the fever may be vector borne.The number of patients with such symptoms has been quite high during the past one month, though there has been some decrease in the cases in the past two days, maintain doctors. Doctors in Sirsa and Ellenabad also said the same thing.
“The platelet count can come down in any fever, including viral fevers. Serological test is the only test that confirms dengue,” said Sheel Kaushik, Deputy Civil Surgeon (Vector-Borne Diseases), Sirsa.
She said they had only one suspected case of dengue in the district so far, though the report of his test was still awaited.
The patient, she said, belonged to Dabwali and was treated in Punjab.
Meanwhile, she said 980 cases of laboratory-tested malaria had been detected in Sirsa so far. In Fatehabad, the figure was slightly less at 926. Kaushik claimed that the cases of malaria were on the decline now and would further come down with the change in the climate.
Panipat: Alarmed by the increasing number of cases of dengue in adjoining areas, the district health department has decided to inspect all government and private buildings to ensure that measures to check breeding of mosquitoes were in place.
Dengue cases in the district have been few, but those of malaria have gone up to 200. The health department maintains that fogging operations carried out in various parts of the district had helped contain the situation.
Civil Surgeon SS Punia said special teams would visit government and private buildings to ensure that these were not breeding mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus.
The department could challan the building owner for proper health standards, he added.
Mystery fever baffles doctors
Doctors here are baffled over the spread of a mysterious fever that has all symptoms of dengue, but serological tests do not confirm what the symptoms suggest...
Updated on: 10/13/2010
Home News Health Mystery fever baffles doctors
Sirsa
Doctors here are baffled over the spread of a mysterious fever that has all symptoms of dengue, but serological tests do not confirm what the symptoms suggest.
A large number of patients have been visiting doctors for the past several days in various towns of Fatehabad and Sirsa districts, where the platelet count of patients has shown a sharp decrease, a condition reported in dengue.
“We have been receiving patients, who come with complaints of fever and their platelet count starts falling drastically,” said Dr HC Dahiya, a physician from Fatehabad.
Dr Sunil Sethi, a physician from Tohana, said the symptoms in these patients were like dengue, but serological tests confirmed that these were not cases of dengue.
The patients, he said, started recovering after a few days and their platelet count, that came down to below one lakh from the normal three lakh or more, started improving gradually.
In some instances, more than one patients from a family have visited doctors with this complaint within a short period, suggesting that the fever may be vector borne.The number of patients with such symptoms has been quite high during the past one month, though there has been some decrease in the cases in the past two days, maintain doctors. Doctors in Sirsa and Ellenabad also said the same thing.
“The platelet count can come down in any fever, including viral fevers. Serological test is the only test that confirms dengue,” said Sheel Kaushik, Deputy Civil Surgeon (Vector-Borne Diseases), Sirsa.
She said they had only one suspected case of dengue in the district so far, though the report of his test was still awaited.
The patient, she said, belonged to Dabwali and was treated in Punjab.
Meanwhile, she said 980 cases of laboratory-tested malaria had been detected in Sirsa so far. In Fatehabad, the figure was slightly less at 926. Kaushik claimed that the cases of malaria were on the decline now and would further come down with the change in the climate.
Panipat: Alarmed by the increasing number of cases of dengue in adjoining areas, the district health department has decided to inspect all government and private buildings to ensure that measures to check breeding of mosquitoes were in place.
Dengue cases in the district have been few, but those of malaria have gone up to 200. The health department maintains that fogging operations carried out in various parts of the district had helped contain the situation.
Civil Surgeon SS Punia said special teams would visit government and private buildings to ensure that these were not breeding mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus.
The department could challan the building owner for proper health standards, he added.