Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Dengue-like viral keeps doctors guessing
Prithvijit Mitra | Oct 27, 2014, 12.00 AM IST
KOLKATA: Is dengue having a longer run in Kolkata this year? Or, is it a new virus similar to the dreaded vector-born disease that remains undetected in the crucial IgM test?
Physicians are not sure about its identity, but they believe that cases of dengue could well be interspersed with this new viral ailment that matches it till the NS1 test, but takes a different course thereafter. Both, they warn, could be equally dangerous since they spread through mosquitoes and are contagious.
Scores of patients at the Ruby Hospital have tested positive in the initial NS1 test over the last three weeks, but the conclusive IgM test failed to confirm it. The latter screens the antibodies generated by the dengue virus. At Apollo
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...eps-doctors-guessing/articleshow/44942421.cms
We have seen similar reports from across India the past few years ;
2009:
Madhya Pradesh: Mysterious disease similar to dengue reported
2011:
West Bengal: Kolkata: Unknown fever grips city, virus not identified
Chandigarh: Mimic fever cases reported in Chandigarh
2013:
West Bengal: Unidentified fever in Kolkata - dengue like symptoms
Prithvijit Mitra | Oct 27, 2014, 12.00 AM IST
KOLKATA: Is dengue having a longer run in Kolkata this year? Or, is it a new virus similar to the dreaded vector-born disease that remains undetected in the crucial IgM test?
Physicians are not sure about its identity, but they believe that cases of dengue could well be interspersed with this new viral ailment that matches it till the NS1 test, but takes a different course thereafter. Both, they warn, could be equally dangerous since they spread through mosquitoes and are contagious.
Scores of patients at the Ruby Hospital have tested positive in the initial NS1 test over the last three weeks, but the conclusive IgM test failed to confirm it. The latter screens the antibodies generated by the dengue virus. At Apollo
...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...eps-doctors-guessing/articleshow/44942421.cms
We have seen similar reports from across India the past few years ;
2009:
Madhya Pradesh: Mysterious disease similar to dengue reported
2011:
West Bengal: Kolkata: Unknown fever grips city, virus not identified
Chandigarh: Mimic fever cases reported in Chandigarh
2013:
West Bengal: Unidentified fever in Kolkata - dengue like symptoms