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Not worse than what we have witness in Hyderabad where the doctors were saying that this H1N1 virus has indeed mutated in a more lethal form, kills before they have time to intervene and has its specific scheme.
Snowy
This would be worse. This thing in Orissa seems to have about a 50% CFR so far.
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(H1N1) gets more virulent
HYDERABAD: The A(H1N1) virus is showing signs of getting ?mutated? into a more virulent form. Clinical observation of experts in the State capital indicate that the genetic make up of A(H1N1) virus has ?changed? and is now more ?potent? after coming into contact with the local existing viral forms. ?Second wave?
This is the ?second wave? of swine flu virus, coinciding with the rainy season, which is still active. There is a possibility of onset of a third and more virulent form in the upcoming winter season. The virus is getting more ?time? to stay in the atmosphere because of low temperatures, experts opine. A pattern, among the swine flu fatalities in twin cities, has been detected. ?Patients are dying within 24 to 48 hours after getting infected with A(H1N1). The virus is not giving any chance to the doctors to treat the patient. The virus has become virulent and that?s why we are losing patients who have good immunity,? said Gandhi Hospital Superintendent E.A. Ashok Kumar. Between May and August, when A(H1N1) virus was imported from other countries, it did not cause severe illness to patients. ?These days, the patient?s condition is deteriorating within 24 hours. There is a definite shift in the genetic make up of the virus. It might have genetically changed after coming into contact with local influenza virus,? Superintendent of Chest Hospital S.V. Prasad. Experts assert that authorities and the public should be prepared for the onset of a third wave of swine flu in winter.http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/15/stor...1553320800.htm
Kandhamal food poisoning toll reaches 11 Source : OTV Bureau
published on : 9/23/2009 8:24:16 PM E-mail to Friend | Print This News
Bhubaneswar: There seems to be no let-up in the suffering of the poor in Kandhamal as two more deaths were reported due to alleged food poisoning on Wednesday taking the death toll 11. The two victims hailed from Gudrikia village.
So far nine people, including children had died in the village. Earlier, eighteen people from the region showing symptoms of food poisoning were admitted to Daringbadi hospital. But three of them were shifted to Berhampur hospital after their conditions deteriorated on Tuesday. Two of them died on Wednesday morning, sources said.
But doctors in the region said the situation is under control. ?Only five to six people were affected. They are okay now. The situation is under control,? Rabindranath Das, a doctor said.
Three medical teams have been camping in the affected regions since last few days. While one more team of doctors would rush to the area from Berhampur, another doctors? team from Bhubaneswar would reach Gudrikia, state health minister Prasan Acharya said.
Meanwhile, the fresh two deaths have pressed the panic button among locals, many of whom are reportedly fleeing from their houses to safer places.
Relief camps have been set up to provide hygienic food to the people. Officials said that the exact cause of deaths can be ascertained after the inquiry of experts.
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Two more die in Gudrigaon village
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Cause of deaths yet to be ascertained
BERHAMPUR: A team of experts from Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) in Bhubaneswar will visit Gudrigaon village in Kandhamal district to investigate the cause behind the death of 11 persons there.
The RMRC experts suspect that some lethal viral infection rather than food poisoning or malaria may have caused the deaths.
Meanwhile, medical experts at MKCG Medical College here have decided to keep the body of one of the victims from Gudrigaon village of Kandhamal district for scientific autopsy.
Two seriously ill persons from Gudrigaon village of Saramuli panchayat in Daringbadi block of Kandhamal district died in the medical college hospital on Wednesday morning.
The deceased were Rasmita Majhi (16) and Saria Majhi (40).
The reason behind their death is yet to be ascertained like the other nine deaths of inhabitants of the same village.
It is yet to be ascertained whether the victims died of food poisoning or some ailments like cerebral malaria.
The administrative officials, including Kandhamal Collector Kishen Kumar, are of the opinion that they might have died of malaria as investigations did not reveal consumption of any food by the victims which may have caused food poisoning. But the medical teams that visited the area including one from MKCG medical college hospital have not got any concrete evidence that the deaths were caused by malaria, according to Chief District Medical Officer of Kandhamal Jatin Patnaik
It is irony that till now no one, including medical experts, is sure about the reason behind deaths at this remote village. Three of the seriously ailing patients from the village had been brought to the medical college hospital for treatment.
One of them is still under treatment.
Both patients, who died in the hospital, had become unconscious and their pupil had got dilated, said the doctors who were treating them here.
Assistant professor of medicine department of the MKCG medical college hospital, Umashankar Mishra, said the body of Rasmita was kept for scientific autopsy.
Portions of her spleen, liver, brain, contents of her stomach and intestine would be put to scientific tests to ascertain the reason behind her death. It is expected to hint at reason behind all the deaths that occurred at her village.
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Yeah, that's what I didn't want to hear. This is a mystery virus. It seems to have about a 50% CFR so far, and seems to have a very short incubation period, perhaps less than 24 hours, as the past five days have had at least four generations of cases.
I knew from the epidemiology of who got ill and when that this could be bad. An entire dead family is always a horrible sign at the start of an outbreak. And an above article indicates spread to another village, so this one spreads easily.
The symptoms mentioned so far include headache, unconsciousness, and dilated pupils. This disease affects the brain.
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Kandhamal toll climbs to 11
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Bhubaneswar, Sept. 23: Two more patients today died of suspected food poisoning that has gripped the tribal-dominated Gudrika village in Kandhamal district, taking the toll to 11.
?Two people died at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur this morning. Both were adults,? said Jatin Patnaik, the Kandhamal chief district medical officer.
The two were shifted to MKCG hospital yesterday after their condition worsened at Daringbadi hospital where they were admitted earlier. As many as 18 persons are still undergoing treatment at the Daringbadi hospital. The news of the deaths triggered panic among families with most fleeing villages out of fear.
Initially, the disease was suspected to be food poisoning following consumption of wild mushrooms. Later, when more people became victims with symptoms of high fever and vomiting, doctors suspected it to be a case of cerebral malaria.
Yesterday, a four-member expert team from MKCG Medical College and Hospital reached the village to ascertain the cause.
The team, however, rejected cerebral malaria as the cause as patients tested negative for malaria. Doctors, however, believe that food poisoning could be a cause.
?The cause will be known only after the patients go through a battery of tests. We will submit a report to the government in two days,? the CDMO said.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to send a fresh team of doctors to the village from Berhampur and Bhubaneswar. ?A team will rush to Gudikia from Berhampur and Bhubaneswar to investigate the case,? said health minister Prasanna Acharya.
?Doctors are still camping at the village and there is no cause of panic as no fresh cases have been detected,? said Patnaik.
Also, four mobile health units have been pressed into service under Saramula and Gadapur panchayats to meet eventualities. Besides, field staff have been engaged to sensitise people, he said.
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Also of note is that most of the victims so far have had the last name "Majhi" indicating spread within an extended family. That might be an important clue.
Also, the symptoms rule out the consumption of an anthrax or plague infected animal.
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Well done Alert for tracking this. A red flag will be a health care worker contracting the same infection, and if this occurs it would tend to back a communicable disease. One would hope there would be swift moves to quarantine the area pending a more definite diagnosis, if this should happen.
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HCW is a good point. We need to keep a close eye for an ill or dead HCW. The incubation period appears to be so short, though, that by the time we read about that, it may be far too late to contain. That spread to a second village is a bad sign.
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It could still be an environmental problem, water supply or similar. Neighbouring villages often tap into the same water supply and other key resources. Let us hope that (or something similar) is what it turns out to be. The HCW will be taking extreme precuations I would hope, so until we hear that they are falling ill, this could be one of those many sad and unfortunate localised problems arising out of poverty or similar.
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What is odd, and IMO troubling, is that there are 40 families in the village, and only four have reported infections. Something of that nature would tend to infect everyone (or at least a even distribution of cases). Most of the deaths are in the Majhi family. That is more consistent with person-to-person spread.
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This story is notably different than every other one in this thread, and it indicates hundreds of cases, not just a couple dozen. I don't know if I trust this one, especially considering who is dead already. In a village with 40 families (maybe 300 people total?) if hundreds were ill, that would be essentially the entire village. This source is questionable.
Unknown disease kills 2 more, toll raises to 11
By Santanu Barad
Last updated: 09/23/2009 21:03:27
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Berhampur ( Orissa ): Two more Kandhamal people suffering from an unknown disease were dead at the MKCG medical hospital here on Tuesday.
Notably, eight persons had been killed and hundreds of people were suffering from an unknown and undetected disease at the Rudrigaon village under Daringibadi block of the Kandhamal district.
According to sources, hundreds of people were being suffering from this unknown disease in the periphery area particularly in the Rudrigaon village of Diringibadi block.
Eight people had already dead and several others had been admitted at various hospitals in Kandhamal and even few people had been sifted to MKCG Medical here. Among the people admitted at the MKCG two; one Rashmita Majhi and another Miraim Majhi were declared dead on Tuesday here at the MKCG in the city.
The disease that killed as many as 10 people could not be detected Even the people were leaving the village in fear as the local doctors were failing to convince the tribal people.
The medical experts who had visited the areas had confirmed that it was not the malaria. Now, it is to be seen weather these people were dying out of the food poison after taking the local mushroom.
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An older source. While the children died first, the adults in the family are now dying. The time difference is onset and death suggests that the adults might have caught this from the children.
The state government rushed an expert team from the state capital to try and unravel the mystery behind the series of deaths at Gudrigaon in Kandhamal
Kandhamal's mystery death claims 2 more
TNN 24 September 2009, 05:29am IST
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BHUBANESWAR/ BERHAMPUR: The state government rushed an expert team from the state capital to try and unravel the mystery behind the series of deaths
at Gudrigaon in Kandhamal district, even as two more persons succumbed to their illnesses on Wednesday. With this, the death toll in the village has touched 10, including six children, during the past five days.
Earlier a four-member doctors' team from MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, had visited Gudrigaon in Saramuli gram panchayat to study the exact cause leading to the deaths. But the team is yet to announce its assessment. Pending that, another team of experts from Bhubaneswar, including medical specialists from the Regional Medical and Research Centre, would visit the village to ascertain the reason of the deaths, health and family welfare minister Prasanna Acharya said.
The dance of death started in Gudrigaon on Saturday when the mysterious disease claimed two lives. The next day six more lives were lost, triggering severe panic in the region. Over a dozen have also been reported suffering from the disease, the source of which has remained a puzzle so far. On Wednesday, two more persons undergoing treatment at MKCG hospital died. At least 12 others are admitted at a government hospital in Daringibadi.
Officials had initially suspected that the deaths were due to either food poisoning caused by consumption of wild mushrooms or cerebral malaria. But subsequently doctors discounted the possibility of malaria. The expert team from MKCG medical college, in its report, has indicated that the deaths were caused by "food poisoning". "Our provisional report has suggested that the deaths were due to food poisoning," said Chakradhar Majhi, who headed the experts team from MKCG.
The chief district medical officer (in-charge) Kandhamal, Jatin Patnaik, said the situation in the village was under control. No fresh case was reported from the area and the condition of patients undergoing treatment in hospitals was improving. At least four mobile health units have been pressed into duty for checking the health of the villagers, the CDMO said. An ambulance was also stationed at Gudurigaon.
Meanwhile, district collector Krishan Kumar has directed all field-level functionaries, including anganwadi workers and ASHA activists, to sensitize people about different health and sanitation issues.
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Not much new in this article. Different articles continue to paint drastically different pictures of what is going on, so I will continue to post everything I find.
2 more succumbs to ‘Unknown disease’ in Kandhamal’s tribal belt
Submitted by Piyush Diwan on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 14:04. FeaturedHealth UpdateTNMOrissa
An unknown disease turned more deadly on Wednesday as two more persons lost their life in Gudrika village of Kandhamal district in the state of Orissa, taking the death toll to 11.
Confirming the news, Jatin Patnaik (Chief District Medical Officer, Kandhamal) said: "Two people died at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur this morning. Both were adults."
The victims were admitted initially at Daringbadi hospital.
However, when their condition deteriorated, the two were shifted to MKCG hospital on Wednesday.
Notably, over 18 people are already admitted at the Daringbadi hospital.
It may be recalled that eight people had died of an unknown disease in this locality earlier this week.
Meanwhile, the state government has decided to send a new team to the village from Berhampur and Bhubaneswar.
Speaking with the reporters, Orissa's health minister, Prasanna Acharya, said: "A team will rush to Gudikia from Berhampur and Bhubaneswar to investigate the case."
Earlier, a four-member expert team was also rushed from the MKCG Medical College and Hospital to uncover the accurate reason of the death of these villagers.
Initially, it was understood that people were falling sick due to food poisoning following consumption of wild mushrooms.
However, later the doctors felt that the patients might be in the clutch of dangerous malaria.
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This is a different picture again. I believe six of the eight who died in the first 48 hours were children, not just four. This one would be consistent with consumption of a toxin.
Two more die of suspected food poisoning in Orissa
Sep 23, 2009 - 1:25:45 PM
'Doctors are still camping in the village. There is no report of further illness,' Jatin Patnaik, chief district medical officer, told IANS.
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By IANS, [RxPG] Bhubaneswar, Sep 23 - Two more people died of suspected food poisoning Wednesday in Orissa's Kandhamal district, raising to 10 the death toll in last weekend's contaminated food tragedy, health authorities said here.
'Two people died at Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College and Hospital at Berhampur. While one person died Tuesday, another died Wednesday. Both were adults,' Bikash Patnaik, joint director of the health department, told IANS here.
Dozens of people fell ill over the weekend after reportedly consuming some contaminated food in Gudrigaon village under Saramuli gram panchayat, some 200 km from district headquarters Phulbani.
While 8 people, including four children, died within 48 hours, officials said most of the people with signs of the illness were discharged after treatment.
'Doctors are still camping in the village. There is no report of further illness,' Jatin Patnaik, chief district medical officer, told IANS.
Investigations were still on to determine the exact cause of the illness, he added.
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