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Chandipura virus still a potential health threat
Umesh Isalkar, TNN | May 16, 2011, 02.37am IST
PUNE: The Chandipura virus has claimed 67 lives in the state between 2007 and 2010. First discovered by the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) in 1965, the outbreak of Chandipura Encephalitis has been a periodic occurrence in the state with a brief lull in the number of cases reported in 2006-07.
"The state health department has prepared a micro-plan to control transmission of the virus in endemic areas. Field workers and health personnel are being trained as part of the pre-monsoon preparation because sandflies breed mostly during rains," said state entomologist B R Mane. Sandfly, which spreads the Chandipura virus, is also a cause of 'Kaala Azaar' - a chronic and potentially fatal parasitic disease which is active in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Mane said, "The Vidarbha region of the state is primarily endemic to transmission of Chandipura virus. The outbreaks in the last three years occurred mostly in Bhandara, Chandrapur, Wardha, Nagpur and Gadchiroli districts. Amravati too has reported a few suspected cases since 2009."
Most cases were reported in 2009-10 when 88 people were infected and 15 died. A majority of the infected patients were below 14 years of age. Of the 74 samples sent to NIV, 49 tested positive, said a report of the state health department.
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Umesh Isalkar, TNN | May 16, 2011, 02.37am IST
PUNE: The Chandipura virus has claimed 67 lives in the state between 2007 and 2010. First discovered by the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) in 1965, the outbreak of Chandipura Encephalitis has been a periodic occurrence in the state with a brief lull in the number of cases reported in 2006-07.
"The state health department has prepared a micro-plan to control transmission of the virus in endemic areas. Field workers and health personnel are being trained as part of the pre-monsoon preparation because sandflies breed mostly during rains," said state entomologist B R Mane. Sandfly, which spreads the Chandipura virus, is also a cause of 'Kaala Azaar' - a chronic and potentially fatal parasitic disease which is active in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Mane said, "The Vidarbha region of the state is primarily endemic to transmission of Chandipura virus. The outbreaks in the last three years occurred mostly in Bhandara, Chandrapur, Wardha, Nagpur and Gadchiroli districts. Amravati too has reported a few suspected cases since 2009."
Most cases were reported in 2009-10 when 88 people were infected and 15 died. A majority of the infected patients were below 14 years of age. Of the 74 samples sent to NIV, 49 tested positive, said a report of the state health department.
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