Nepal: Four die of unknown disease

[Jeremy]

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=206339
Four die of unknown disease


Kantipur Report BARDIYA, July 26 - [FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Four people died and more than a dozen others were taken ill by an unknown disease at Neulapur-2 of Bardiya district within the past one week.
Jeevan Kumar Shahi, a local, said Radha Chaudhary, Sher Bahadur Chaudhary, Amresara Tharu and an unidentified pregnant woman died of the disease.
The patients struck by the mystery illness fall unconscious with severe pain from the head to the chest as if they had been stung by poisonous insects. But the patients do not show any mark of insect bites on them, say locals.
The local District Public Health Office said it would soon dispatch a medical team to the affected area to treat the ill and identify the disease.
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[Rwilmer]

Re: Nepal: Four die of unknown disease

Unfortuanly, unknown diseases in nepal happen all the time. We don't know for sure if this is related to a flu or not. They seem to be weekly. Each and every year.

 

[Jeremy]

Re: Nepal: Four die of unknown disease

Unfortuanly, unknown diseases in nepal happen all the time. We don't know for sure if this is related to a flu or not. They seem to be weekly. Each and every year.

Agreed! Which is why I put this in the Emerging Diseases forum.

What is important is the description, numbers and the reference to the pregnant woman.

Severe pain, head to chest, more than a dozen, etc.

Like I said in the "What to look for in August..." thread, IF we have a 1918 repeat, a lot of these reports might be later recogonized as H1N1. The point I am making is that it is very difficult to recognize the emergence until the numbers start to get bigger or the reports become more frequent.

Just food for thought in the tracking process....