Ronan Kelly
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PGI is tracking patients
Shimona Kanwar, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.28AM IST
CHANDIGARH: With its entry in the Tricity, scrub typhus -- a bacterial disease, which is known to be prevalent in beaches and forests -- has now starting spreading extensively in the Tricity, with four confirmed cases being reported every day. The disease has been reported from various regions of India, especially Himalayan regions including Shimla, besides Assam and West Bengal.
"However, an interesting finding is that many of theses cases reported in PGI are from the urban parts of the Tricity and from high socio-economic class," said Dr Sethi.
The PGI is working on involving epidemiologists and also tracking patients to find out about the spread of the disease from forests and scrub areas to urban locales.
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FluTrackers threads on scrub typhus outbreaks in India in 2012;
Maharashtra - Rare scrub typhus case in Nagpur
Rajasthan - 28 deaths in suspected scrub typhus outbreaks
Rajasthan - Dengue, Leptospirosis and Scrub Typhus on the rise
Delhi - 2 scrub typhus cases confirmed
Chandigarh - Scrub typhus outbreak
Andhra Pradesh: Scrub Typhus outbreak
Kerala: 15 cases of Scrub Typhus infection reported
Tamil Nadu: 3 die of scrub typhus
Chennai: Scrub Typhus fatality
Shimona Kanwar, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.28AM IST
CHANDIGARH: With its entry in the Tricity, scrub typhus -- a bacterial disease, which is known to be prevalent in beaches and forests -- has now starting spreading extensively in the Tricity, with four confirmed cases being reported every day. The disease has been reported from various regions of India, especially Himalayan regions including Shimla, besides Assam and West Bengal.
"However, an interesting finding is that many of theses cases reported in PGI are from the urban parts of the Tricity and from high socio-economic class," said Dr Sethi.
The PGI is working on involving epidemiologists and also tracking patients to find out about the spread of the disease from forests and scrub areas to urban locales.
...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...cms?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
FluTrackers threads on scrub typhus outbreaks in India in 2012;
Maharashtra - Rare scrub typhus case in Nagpur
Rajasthan - 28 deaths in suspected scrub typhus outbreaks
Rajasthan - Dengue, Leptospirosis and Scrub Typhus on the rise
Delhi - 2 scrub typhus cases confirmed
Chandigarh - Scrub typhus outbreak
Andhra Pradesh: Scrub Typhus outbreak
Kerala: 15 cases of Scrub Typhus infection reported
Tamil Nadu: 3 die of scrub typhus
Chennai: Scrub Typhus fatality