Re: Uttar Pradesh 2011: Disease outbreaks, fatalities
From my math that's 100 hospitalizations daily with 50 showing evidence of convulsions.
City in grip of high fever
TNN | Aug 4, 2011, 02.00AM IST
LUCKNOW: Though infectious diseases spread every year during rains, doctors this time are concerned over the trend of 'extremely high grade fever' (103-106 F), which has affecting a large number of people.
In some cases, the high fever is causing convulsions too. The illness needs timely treatment including reacting to warning signals (see info box). "About 20% patients reporting with viral infections show extremely high grade temperature and need hospitalisation. Half of them have shown signs of convulsions which means that this fever should be taken seriously," chief medical superintendent, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Dr RD Dubey said.
What makes the situation serious is that at least 500 persons with viral fever and diseases are reporting daily at city hospitals. At Ram Manohar Lohia hospital alone, about 100-150 such patients are arriving daily. Though no formal study has been initiated, microbiologists assume that a certain virus could have mutated which is causing the fever.
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From my math that's 100 hospitalizations daily with 50 showing evidence of convulsions.
City in grip of high fever
TNN | Aug 4, 2011, 02.00AM IST
LUCKNOW: Though infectious diseases spread every year during rains, doctors this time are concerned over the trend of 'extremely high grade fever' (103-106 F), which has affecting a large number of people.
In some cases, the high fever is causing convulsions too. The illness needs timely treatment including reacting to warning signals (see info box). "About 20% patients reporting with viral infections show extremely high grade temperature and need hospitalisation. Half of them have shown signs of convulsions which means that this fever should be taken seriously," chief medical superintendent, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Dr RD Dubey said.
What makes the situation serious is that at least 500 persons with viral fever and diseases are reporting daily at city hospitals. At Ram Manohar Lohia hospital alone, about 100-150 such patients are arriving daily. Though no formal study has been initiated, microbiologists assume that a certain virus could have mutated which is causing the fever.
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