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Unknown outbreak - India - Mystery Fever Deaths

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Mystery fever toll rises to four

Statesman News Service
KRISHNAGAR, April 4. ? A mystery fever claimed two more lives today taking the death toll to four. Rupa Biswas (22), after being afflicted by an unknown fever in Naopara, Tildanga, a village in Ranaghat police station area of Nadia, died in Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital. And four-year-old Biswajit Biswas died in Nilratan Sirkar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata today.

No new cases were brought to the hospitals today. In JNM hospital, 10 persons, and seven in NRS hospital, are undergoing treatment.

Two persons, including a child, died and about 18 others of the same family took ill after being afflicted with an unknown fever at Naopara in Tildanga over the last 10 days. Though two-year-old Gour Biswas died of severe bronchial pneumonia on Sunday, the death of one Karick Biswas (50), of the same family, has not been detected yet. He died in his house 10 days ago.

Chief medical officer of health Dr Mrinal Kanti Biswas said: ?A medical team headed by deputy chief medical officer of health-II, Dr Rash Behari Basu visited the area again today and they have collected blood samples from neighbours of the family for further investigation. Earlier, the medical officers collected blood samples from over a 100 neighbours but no germs of malaria or kalazar were found in the clinical examination of their blood. So, we have sent the blood samples of 11 persons to School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata for detecting whether the disease developed for viral or bacterial infection.?
 
Re: India: Mystery Fever Deaths

Re: India: Mystery Fever Deaths

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Statesman News Service
KRISHNAGAR, April 3. ? Two persons, including a child, died and about 18 others of the same family, took ill after being afflicted with a mysterious fever in Naopara, Tildanga, a village in Ranaghat police station area of Nadia over the last 10 days. District health officials, headed by chief medical officer of health Dr Mrinal Kanti Biswas, rushed to the village yesterday after the death of the child and they have disinfected the area.
According to Dr Biswas, the two-year-old Gour Biswas died of severe bronchial pneumonia yesterday, while the death of one Karick Biswas (50), of the same family, has not been detected yet. He died in his house 10 days ago.
The disease that has afflicted the others in the family could not be detected when they were admitted to Ranaghat Sub-Divisional Hospital three days ago. In the hospital?s register, the cause of fever is written as ?unknown?.
The ailing family members, of whom four are female and three are children, were shifted to Kalyani Jahawarlal Nehru Memorial hospital from where two have been shifted to NRS, Kolkata after their condition deteriorated.
According to locals, Kartick Biswas had recently gone to Pandua, Hooghly to purchase cattle. Soon after he returned home, he developed high fever with acute pain in the neck. Within two days, he died of the disease. After his death, other members of the family developed similar symptoms with a tendency to vomit.
?Panic gripped the family members when most of the members fell ill. Yesterday, we admitted my grandson Gour to Ranaghat SD hospital but he died. Symptoms of the disease are high fever with acute pain in the neck and vomiting tendencies,? Mr Debashis Biswas, a elderly member of the family said.
The CMOH Dr Biswas said: ?A medical team visited the area and adequate bleaching powder has been sprayed. The patients have been sent to the Kalyani JNM hospital where their blood samples will be examined thoroughly. We have also collected blood samples from neighbours of the family for further investigation.?
In another outbreak, about 40 persons were taken ill to Krsihnaganj Rural Hospital after they consumed cards in a ceremony at one Mr Madhab Biswas?s house at Malighata in Nadia?s Krishnaganj police station area today. Of them, seven have been shifted to Saktinagar District Hospital after their condition deteriorated.
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