Tamil Nadu: Death due to unidentified haemorrhagic fever in Chennai - Dengue ruled out

[Ronan Kelly]

Man dies of ?unknown? fever
TNN | Oct 10, 2012, 02.19AM IST

CHENNAI: A 26-year-old man died of viral fever at Stanley Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday. While doctors initially said Sathya of Madhavaram died of hemorrhagic shock caused by dengue, they later said the death was caused by an unknown fever. "He didn't test positive for dengue. It looks like a viral fever," said a doctor in the emergency ward. An official in the Chennai Corporation's health department said, "We don't know what fever it was. He was brought very late to the hospital." Doctors say many hospitals in the city are already crowded with hundreds of patients with severe viral infections.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Tamil Nadu: Death due to unidentified haemorrhagic fever in Chennai - Dengue ruled out

Mystery fever claims 4th life in 4 days
TNN | Oct 14, 2012, 02.26AM IST



CHENNAI: A Class 12 student of Ayanavaram who was suffering from fever for three days and was being treated at a private hospital, was declared brought dead at the government general hospital on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, a 26-year-old resident of the Ice House police quarters in Triplicane died at the Government Royapettah Hospital (GRH) of fever of unknown origin. The Ayanavaram boy's death is the fourth such case in the city in the last one week.

Three and a-half-year-old Madhumitha of a village near Ponneri, admitted with fever, died at the Institute of Child Health and Hospital in Egmore on Wednesday,. Her relatives were told dengue was suspected, but doctors said the tests weren't positive. On Tuesday, 26-year-old Sathya of Madhavaram died at the Stanley Medical College Hospital of an unknown fever.
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Samji Solomon Raj, who died on Friday...began suffering from fever about 20 days ago. ... Samji was unable to walk, eat anything without vomiting and his urine had turned yellow...Around a week ago, the fever returned and Samji also developed chicken pox, said his younger brother. His lips had begun to bleed and swelling up on one side...the medical report said Samji died of "fever of unknown origin, acute respiratory distress syndrome, multi organ dysfunction syndrome followed by sepsis and cardio-respiratory arrest."
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"The cause of the fever remains a mystery, but it has led to this condition which caused multiple organ failure.
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Re: Tamil Nadu: Death due to unidentified haemorrhagic fever in Chennai - Dengue ruled out

Are they testing for leptospirosis? That is my obvious thought with mention of a fever of long duration, rash, sepsis and hemorrhage.