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Fear of plague haunting Himachal villages
April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Health | Posted by: admin
By Vishal Gulati
Shimla, (IANS) Residents of the Rohru rural belt in Himachal Pradesh are living in fear of the ?wrath of god?. The cause of the scare is actually pneumonic plague caused by rats, but many of them believe that every 10 to 15 years supernatural forces cause the disease outbreak.
By their calculation, these residents of Rohru division in Shimla district believe, the ?wrath of god? will strike them some time this year. Rohru and its nearby areas are home to around 20,000 people.
These are the observations of an ongoing study by the Department of Community Medicine at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sanctioned the study for two years to investigate socio-epidemiological factors related to the 2002 plague outbreak in Rohru that claimed four lives.
Simultaneously, it?s trying to elucidate the sylvatic cycle of plague bacilli transmission in areas around Rohru...
Fear of plague haunting Himachal villages
April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Health | Posted by: admin
By Vishal Gulati
Shimla, (IANS) Residents of the Rohru rural belt in Himachal Pradesh are living in fear of the ?wrath of god?. The cause of the scare is actually pneumonic plague caused by rats, but many of them believe that every 10 to 15 years supernatural forces cause the disease outbreak.
By their calculation, these residents of Rohru division in Shimla district believe, the ?wrath of god? will strike them some time this year. Rohru and its nearby areas are home to around 20,000 people.
These are the observations of an ongoing study by the Department of Community Medicine at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sanctioned the study for two years to investigate socio-epidemiological factors related to the 2002 plague outbreak in Rohru that claimed four lives.
Simultaneously, it?s trying to elucidate the sylvatic cycle of plague bacilli transmission in areas around Rohru...