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Mystery fever claims 8 lives in Vijaypur
TNN 27 December 2009, 10:38pm IST
Kanpur: Death of eight persons, including five of a family, in a span of 10 days due to some kind of mysterious disease in Vijaypur village in
Rasoolabad Block of Kanpur Dehat has caused panic among villagers.
The deadly disease has affected about a dozen families in the village that has a population of nearly 500 Dalit. The victims complained of high fever, severe headache and vomiting. The panicky villagers allege it is the same mysterious disease that had claimed nearly 500 lives in various blocks of Kanpur Dehat last year.
However, the district administration and health officials have denied the possibility and said postmortem of the youth who had died on Saturday would be conducted to ascertained the cause of death.
According to reports, Ramwati (22) daughter of Radheyshyam Dohrey was the first case reported from the village on December 15 followed by the death of a three-year-old Ravendra, son of Radheyshyam, after a brief illness. A couple of days after Radheshyam's wife Chidana (40) died on December 22, he also fell a prey to the killer disease. Again on December 26, Sanju (18) member of the same family died due to the mysterious disease followed by three more deaths viz Rajiv (3) son of Alok, Maulshree (35) wife of Amar Lal and one Guddu (22) of the same village.
Several other villagers are said to be ill. Villagers alleged that the district as well as health authorities were not doing anything to treat them or prevent further spread of the disease.
Villagers said they had met several health officials but had not received any assurance. They further complained that the community health centre (CHC) in the village was not functioning properly.
They further informed that health teams did visit their village but they did little except for taking blood samples of the affected persons. Even after 10 days to the outbreak, they were yet to receive the results of the tests.
District magistrate Saroj Tewari, however, said: "It would be too early to reach any conclusion. He said a committee comprising an SDM-rank official and a deputy chief medical officer had been constituted to corroborate the facts.
Doctors and paramedical staff had been camping in the village since Saturday and treatment of ailing persons was underway. He said blood samples had been taken and slides were made during the check up and most of the patients were found complaining of mild fever and body ache.
Mystery fever claims 8 lives in Vijaypur
TNN 27 December 2009, 10:38pm IST
Kanpur: Death of eight persons, including five of a family, in a span of 10 days due to some kind of mysterious disease in Vijaypur village in
Rasoolabad Block of Kanpur Dehat has caused panic among villagers.
The deadly disease has affected about a dozen families in the village that has a population of nearly 500 Dalit. The victims complained of high fever, severe headache and vomiting. The panicky villagers allege it is the same mysterious disease that had claimed nearly 500 lives in various blocks of Kanpur Dehat last year.
However, the district administration and health officials have denied the possibility and said postmortem of the youth who had died on Saturday would be conducted to ascertained the cause of death.
According to reports, Ramwati (22) daughter of Radheyshyam Dohrey was the first case reported from the village on December 15 followed by the death of a three-year-old Ravendra, son of Radheyshyam, after a brief illness. A couple of days after Radheshyam's wife Chidana (40) died on December 22, he also fell a prey to the killer disease. Again on December 26, Sanju (18) member of the same family died due to the mysterious disease followed by three more deaths viz Rajiv (3) son of Alok, Maulshree (35) wife of Amar Lal and one Guddu (22) of the same village.
Several other villagers are said to be ill. Villagers alleged that the district as well as health authorities were not doing anything to treat them or prevent further spread of the disease.
Villagers said they had met several health officials but had not received any assurance. They further complained that the community health centre (CHC) in the village was not functioning properly.
They further informed that health teams did visit their village but they did little except for taking blood samples of the affected persons. Even after 10 days to the outbreak, they were yet to receive the results of the tests.
District magistrate Saroj Tewari, however, said: "It would be too early to reach any conclusion. He said a committee comprising an SDM-rank official and a deputy chief medical officer had been constituted to corroborate the facts.
Doctors and paramedical staff had been camping in the village since Saturday and treatment of ailing persons was underway. He said blood samples had been taken and slides were made during the check up and most of the patients were found complaining of mild fever and body ache.
