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Jaundice outbreak haunts city
<LABEL>The writer has posted comments on this article</LABEL>TNN | Jan 7, 2012, 02.32AM IST
KOLKATA: Even as the civic authorities are grappling with chikungunya, cases of jaundice have been reported from across Kolkata. Scores of patients have been seeking admission to hospitals over the last two weeks. It was at Ward 122 in north Kolkata that the outbreak was first reported. Patients have been seeking treatment from southern and central parts of the city as well. While experts are baffled at the unseasonal outbreak, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been running two jaundice detection camps in the affected area.
"It's surprising since cases of jaundice usually shoot up in summer. Hepatitis A is a water-borne disease which is easily contracted in summer when water consumption goes up and people often end up drinking from contaminated sources. But it's not unprecedented either. If water sources are contaminated, then an outbreak is possible any time of the year. It is indeed worrying," said PK Nemani, vice-president of the Indian Medical Association.
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<LABEL>The writer has posted comments on this article</LABEL>TNN | Jan 7, 2012, 02.32AM IST
KOLKATA: Even as the civic authorities are grappling with chikungunya, cases of jaundice have been reported from across Kolkata. Scores of patients have been seeking admission to hospitals over the last two weeks. It was at Ward 122 in north Kolkata that the outbreak was first reported. Patients have been seeking treatment from southern and central parts of the city as well. While experts are baffled at the unseasonal outbreak, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been running two jaundice detection camps in the affected area.
"It's surprising since cases of jaundice usually shoot up in summer. Hepatitis A is a water-borne disease which is easily contracted in summer when water consumption goes up and people often end up drinking from contaminated sources. But it's not unprecedented either. If water sources are contaminated, then an outbreak is possible any time of the year. It is indeed worrying," said PK Nemani, vice-president of the Indian Medical Association.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...outbreak-haunts-city/articleshow/11394641.cms