Re: India 2011: Encephalitis fatalities, Total 1,052
Re: India 2011: Encephalitis fatalities, Total 1,052
386 encephalitis cases in Bihar this year: Govt
TNN | Nov 19, 2011, 09.05PM IST
PATNA: As many as 386 cases of encephalitis were reported by government hospitals in the state this year, of which 46 were confirmed cases of the dreaded Japanese encephalitis (JE). Six children affected with JE had died in course of treatment. The total toll due to encephalitis, including JE, was 89.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/10795671.cms
Ro's Comment -This fatality figure is a misrepresentation of the situation in Bihar. 52 children (and perhaps 2 adults) died in Muzaffarpur in June, and at least 85 have died in Gaya district bringing the total to 137 at a minimum. How I can know this from a distance of 8,000 miles away, but the Times of India is unable to find this information is beyond me. The Indian Express and Telegraph stories below suggest that the figures quoted above are for the government hospitals in Gaya only.
NIV-Pune team in Gaya to detect non-JE cases
Santosh Singh
Posted: Sun Nov 20 2011, 00:26 hrs
A team of National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, on Saturday reached Gaya’s premier government hospital where 85 deaths have been reported out of 389 admissions since this August. The NIV team is at the Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) to take blood samples “to decode non-Japanese encephalitis (JE)” cases.
Doctors in Gaya, however, said most cases were of JE.
Hospitals in Bihar have the facility to conduct only the Elisa test of cerebral spinal fluid. The cent per cent confirmatory test — Advanced Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR — is available only with NIV, Pune.
Besides, the Elisa test can only detect category I and II of JE. The test, however, cannot diagnose Category III cases that show same symptoms as the non-JE virus. In Muzaffarpur, 52 patients, who died of suspected encephalitis this summer, were said to be of category IV.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nivpune-team-in-gaya-to-detect-nonje-cases/878135/
Scourge sting puts govt on toes
SUMI SUKANYA
Patna, Nov. 19: The state government has finally swung into action to fight the outbreak of encepha-litis, but not before the death of 85 children.
Health department principal secretary Amarjeet Sinha today said plans were afoot to set up paediatric Intensive Care Units (ICUs) at Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANNMCH), Gaya and Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), Muzaffarpur in the wake of the huge number of suspected Japanese encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome cases reported in the two health hubs in recent times.
“The outbreak of Japanese encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome cases in Gaya and adjoining areas is very unfortunate. The disease has so far claimed 85 lives. We are trying our best to check further spread of the disease,” he said.
Sinha’s comment comes a day after The Telegraph reported that ANNMCH had in the last 88 days received 389 patients, of whom 85 had succumbed to the mosquito-borne disease.
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http://telegraphindia.com/1111120/jsp/bihar/story_14775469.jsp
And Uttar Pradesh;
Encephalitis claimed two more lives
Nov 19, 05:13 pm
Gorakhpur: has been a string of deaths from encephalitis in Purvanchal. BRD Medical College in the last twenty-four hours in the ten new patients were admitted and two died.
Those who died eight years of Gorakhpur and Kushinagar kumkum include the 38-year Israwati. Among those admitted to Gorakhpur, Mhrajagnj and Sntkbirnagr two - two and Kushinagar, Deoria, one of Bihar and Nepal - are a patient. Still admitted to Nehru Hospital, 151 patients are being treated different wards. January till last in medical school have come to treat 3059 patients, of whom 557 have died.
http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/uttarpradesh/4_1_8511705.html
