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Over 1000 affected by mysterious fever
By Manoj Kar
Kendrapara, Oct 30: Migrant labourers besides mobile truck drivers are suspected carrier of mysterious vector borne disease that has cast its vice-like grip over several villages of this coastal district of Odisha.
There is widespread report of strike of vector borne disease in all the nine blocks of the district. Since past one month, over 1000 people including children were infected by mystery fever that is symptomatic of Chikungunya fever.
The disease afflicting the people could either be Chikungunya or that of dengue and it comes under highly infectious category of fever, according to medical fraternity.
This region records annual exodus of its human resources to country's other parts in search of better and viable employment opportunity.
The migrant workers get infected in their workplaces and carry home the vector-borne virus in course of their return journey.
Incidentally, the villages hit by hard by mystery fever comprise sizeable bulk of itinerant population.
Besides, the migrant truck drivers who used to have night break in truck terminus along the Paradip-Daitary expressway could be the carrier of the disease.
The disease has spread fast in several expressway-side villages. The virus in all probability spread from the truck terminus to the village areas. Quite a few local residents earn livelihood vending commodities at the terminus, observed health personnel.
Meanwhile, the medical teams that took stock of the situation in affected villages collected larva samples from stagnant water bodies while dispatching it for entomological test. There is abysmal lack of sanitation in majority of the affected villages.
The localities hit by virus borne disease were replete with stagnant water accumulation leading to the breeding of mosquitoes, according to the medical team.
Panic has taken firm grip in both the villages situated on the Mahanadi 's downstream with the disease casting its shadow almost on every household.
Though the disease has spread rapidly in the villages, the situation has been brought under control, said officials of state health department.
Over 1000 affected by mysterious fever
By Manoj Kar
Kendrapara, Oct 30: Migrant labourers besides mobile truck drivers are suspected carrier of mysterious vector borne disease that has cast its vice-like grip over several villages of this coastal district of Odisha.
There is widespread report of strike of vector borne disease in all the nine blocks of the district. Since past one month, over 1000 people including children were infected by mystery fever that is symptomatic of Chikungunya fever.
The disease afflicting the people could either be Chikungunya or that of dengue and it comes under highly infectious category of fever, according to medical fraternity.
This region records annual exodus of its human resources to country's other parts in search of better and viable employment opportunity.
The migrant workers get infected in their workplaces and carry home the vector-borne virus in course of their return journey.
Incidentally, the villages hit by hard by mystery fever comprise sizeable bulk of itinerant population.
Besides, the migrant truck drivers who used to have night break in truck terminus along the Paradip-Daitary expressway could be the carrier of the disease.
The disease has spread fast in several expressway-side villages. The virus in all probability spread from the truck terminus to the village areas. Quite a few local residents earn livelihood vending commodities at the terminus, observed health personnel.
Meanwhile, the medical teams that took stock of the situation in affected villages collected larva samples from stagnant water bodies while dispatching it for entomological test. There is abysmal lack of sanitation in majority of the affected villages.
The localities hit by virus borne disease were replete with stagnant water accumulation leading to the breeding of mosquitoes, according to the medical team.
Panic has taken firm grip in both the villages situated on the Mahanadi 's downstream with the disease casting its shadow almost on every household.
Though the disease has spread rapidly in the villages, the situation has been brought under control, said officials of state health department.