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India: Karnataka Unidentified Fever 2017

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
3 fatalities reported;
F/19 hospitalized for 10 days died 7/7 in Mysuru
F/35 died 7/7 in Mandya
F/22 died "recently"

Hospitals in Mysuru are experiencing a bed shortage.
Source: http://starofmysore.com/viral-fever-deaths-continue-haunt-mysuru-mandya/

Two patients on one bed, others forced to sleep on floor in this hospital
By Team Asianet Newsable | 08:43 PM July 04, 2017

Two patients were seen sharing beds at the Chamarajanagar district hospital
Others were seen sleeping on the floor of the hospital
Many with complaints of dengue and fever had got admitted to the hospital
Though hospital can take in 300 patients, more than 1,000 patients are seen visiting the hospital
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The hospital has the 300-bed capacity, and the patients are more than it can admit. However, the hospital authorities decided to admit all of them than sending them away. But they could not even arrange for bed spreads or beds to be put on the ground.
The main reason for so many patients thronging the hospital is said to be the fear of dengue and viral fever. With the change of weather, many are suffering from fever, and as most of them have symptoms of dengue, they are thronging the hospital.
The Public TV reports said that per day there are at least 250 patients with symptoms of dengue and 1,500 people with viral fever coming to the hospital.
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http://newsable.asianetnews.tv/karn...loor-in-this-hospital-chamarajanagar-hospital

Bengaluru's hospitals flooded with viral fever cases
DH News Service, Bengaluru, Jul 7 2017, 2:00 IST
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The hospitals in the city are flooded with cases of viral fever with dengue-like symptoms. According to the doctors, the hospitals are running short of beds and rooms as they are filled with patients who have been admitted due to new viral fever cases.

?We are seeing new viral cases every day. Many hospitals across the city are filled with patients, some of them even admitted in the ICU,? said Dr Sudarshan Ballal, chairman, Manipal Hospital.

Dr Sudha Menon, internal medicine, Fortis Hospital, said that we see at least 10 patients with viral fever each day. They even have symptoms of dengue.Doctors, however, said that they have to wait for the government to confirm whether the new viral fever is dengue.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/621392/bengalurus-hospitals-flooded-viral-fever.html
 
New viral fever enters Mysuru district

Shrinivasa M | TNN | Nov 8, 2017, 16:57 IST
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Speaking to the Times of India, Mysuru district vector-borne diseases control officer Dr S Chidambara said that this fever is yet to be given any specific name.

"Those who suffer from this fever generally get fever for first two days and for next 15 to 20 days they face body ache, joint pain etc. After that it will get cured,' he said.

"This viral fever is neither dengue nor chikungunya or any other known types of viral fevers. The virus which is causing this fever is yet to be named,' he said.
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According to Dr. M G Satish Kumar, the physician, Colombia Asia hospital, since last one month, he is receiving patients with this new kind of viral fever. "Patients complain fever, rashes, muscle and joint pain. Many of them even find difficult to walk. But their blood samples are testing negative for both dengue and chikungunya," he explained.

"Probably it is also mosquito-borne disease....
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ters-mysuru-district/articleshow/61562030.cms
 
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