Diseases also spread by wild animals venturing into human habitations: virologist‘Dengue, viral fever, chicken guinea, Japanese encephalitis, etc are transmitted by sand fly’Sand fly is vector of Chandipura virus which is carried by wild animals: M. RadhakrishnaKARIMNAGAR: The extensive mining operations, deforestation and entry of wild animals carrying virus into human habitations were stated to be...
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Nearly 70 cases of viral fever were being reported every day in the city and the Health Department officials and Corporation’s health wing had been taking all steps to reduce mosquito density, City Health Officer V. Subramaniam said here on Thursday.According to him, half of the viral fever cases are suspected chikungunya cases and appropriate medical attention is given to the affected persons. Subramaniapuram,...
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The city unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday organised a medical camp on the premises of Care and Share School for residents of New Rajarajeswaripet.A team of doctors, including M. Rama Rao, M. Kiran, Rajesh, Venkat and Madhuri examined close to 120 elders and 80 children afflicted with viral fever, from the slum habitations located along Padmavathi Ghat.The party’s floor leader...
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couple affected by viral fever at their home at Rajarajeswaripeta in Vijayawada on Saturday. —VIJAYAWADA: With the government health machinery not being of help, distress-ridden people in Old Rajarajeswaripeta who are unable to afford private health care are falling victim to viral fevers. Knock the door of any of the100 families that were shifted from Padmavathi ghat to Old Rajarajeswari temporary...
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Amidst reports of rising incidence of viral fever in the city, a 10-year-old girl, Sneha of Woraiyur, admitted to the K.A.P.Viswanatham Government Medical College Hospital with complaints of high fever died on Thursday morning.Though there were initial suspicions that it was a case of dengue shock syndrome, Health Department and the Hospital authorities toldthat the girl had tested negative for dengue...
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Madurai, Oct 26 /--/ A mysterious fever has claimed two lives and affected more than 200 people in and around Paravai and Vadipatti in this district. Official sources said public health department personnel have been pressed into service to find out the cause of the fever, which they suspect to be Chikungunya or viral fever....
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Though not yet having lost a patient to swine flu, Nepal Friday sounded an alarm after the discovery that the epidemic could be spreading in two districts in the west where school children and security personnel tested positive for the disease.Schools were closed in Parbat and its neighbouring district Baglung after viral fever raged in classrooms and 12 people tested positive for swine flu in Parbat.Last...
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The sudden outbreak of a “mysterious disease” in Sangolikuppam village near here has left the residents a worried lot, as over 500 villagers have fallen sick in the past 10 days.They suffer from symptoms of fever, vomiting and body ache. On information, a medical team headed by Deputy Director (Health services) D. Meera went to the village and screened the patients.that initially, on an average, 20-25...
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Saturday, taking the toll in the viral fever in the district this year to 464.Twenty-one patients suffering from the fever have been admitted to various hospitals in the region, Additional Director Health L P Rawat said.He said a total of 2,709 patients suffering from Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) were admitted this year toThe dead include two from Kushinagar, one each...
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Saturday, taking the toll in the viral fever in the district this year to 464.Twenty-one patients suffering from the fever have been admitted to various hospitals in the region, Additional Director Health L P Rawat said.He said a total of 2,709 patients suffering from Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) were admitted this year toThe dead include two from Kushinagar, one each...
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