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Three dengue cases reported
TNN | Apr 30, 2011, 06.17am IST
NEW DELHI: The threat of dengue looms large with the city reporting three dengue cases in the past one week. The number of cases continues to increase. On Thursday, an 85-year-old person who lives in Hauz Khas was diagnosed with dengue in a private hospital. Doctors said the patient's condition is stable now. The first case of dengue was reported from AIIMS on March 20. Dr Anoop Singh, a PG student in AIIMS, tested positive for the disease.
Agencies
Tue, 03 May 2011 13:07:00
New Delhi : A fresh case of dengue fever was reported from east Delhi Tuesday, taking the total number of cases this year to three, officials here said.
"The patient, Ashwani, tested positive April 26. The 29-year-old is a resident of Mandawali in east Delhi," chairman of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) public health committee V.K. Monga told IANS.
The national capital's first dengue case of the year was reported March 3 from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
"It is possible for the fever to surface even during extreme summers or winters. This could also happen because of new mosquitoes. Also, those who have tested positive could be old cases," added Monga.
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Dengue claims 1st victim in city
Jun 17, 2011, 01.26am IST
MUMBAI: In what is being labelled as the first dengue death of the season, a 46-year-old Navi Mumbai resident died of complications arising out of the mosquito-borne disease at Jaslok Hospital on Wednesday.
Jayashree Jagdish Gadi was transferred from BARC Hospital in Anushakti Nagar to Jaslok Hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday. "She was in hospital for less than 24 hours before she died,'' said a doctor at Jaslok Hospital. The patient had been to three hospitals before being brought to Jaslok in a serious condition. "She not only had low platelet count but her liver and kidney functions were also poor. As it was dengue haemorrhagic fever, she has had clots in her brain,'' said a doctor. Blood test reports indicated that she had dengue and the hospital has accordingly notified the death to the local civic ward.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dengue fever has yet again begun to take a grip on the city with the increase in rainfall.
Fever cases had been going up in many parts of the city in the past few days since the onset of the monsoon. While only two to four cases of dengue were reported in the district on a daily basis, on Friday, the district health administration's dengue toll for the day stood at 22.
Predictably, 18 out of these 22 cases were from Corporation wards while the rest were scattered cases from the periphery.
Only laboratory-confirmed cases of the disease end up as statistics with the Health Department. Fever cases clinically suspected as dengue could be much more and these do not figure in official reports. Case-reporting from private hospitals also has not been done properly, with the result that the actual number of cases of dengue is anybody's guess.
However, Health officials point out that the dengue figures do not really matter. What matters is how well the cases are managed.
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Dengue cases rise to 5
TNN | Jun 23, 2011, 06.19am IST
NEW DELHI: The total number of dengue cases reported this season has gone up to five after a 20-year-old girl admitted at a private hospital was diagnosed positive for the vector-borne disease. According to Dr D S Chadha, specialist, internal medicine, at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj, the patient's condition is stable but the platelet count continues to be low.
"She was admitted to our hospital about a week with high grade fever, weakness and typhoid. On further tests, she was diagnosed positive for dengue. We have informed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi," said Chadha.
City not yet rid of dengue fever
July 6, 2011 DC Hyderabad .aaa.Shareemailprint..July 5: While malaria is raging in the city and adjacent districts, dengue fever has also started to make its presence felt. As per official data, there are 31 confirmed and 30 suspected cases of dengue in Hyderabad as of July 4. Sources in the health department say dengue test facilities are not available at major government hospitals while hospitals claim there hasn?t been any dengue case in the last two-three months.
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160 kids treated for dengue in Davanagere hospital
TNN | Jul 11, 2011, 05.56am IST
DAVANAGERE: One hundred and sixty children have been treated at the city-based Bapuji Child Health Institute for dengue between January and June. Of them, 10 children have succumbed to the epidemic, according to sources.
Dengue cases may go up steeply following the onset of monsoon, or the outbreak of malaria and other vector-borne diseases. Hundreds of young patients from Haveri, Bellary, Shimoga, Chitradurga and Davanagere districts are getting treated at the hospital, which does not charge for wards or doctors' service...
Cases of dengue on the rise in Chennai
TNN | Jul 19, 2011, 04.55am IST
CHENNAI: Dengue fever is on the rise in the city. Many hospitals say they have started seeing at least five new cases every day. Some patients have been admitted for intensive care and a few have died.
"We have one patient in the ICU even today. The patient's platelet count dropped very badly," said a senior physician at St Isabel's hospital told on Thursday.
The situation is worse at the children's hospitals and wards. Doctors in almost all children's hospitals have been admitting dengue patients for intensive care. "We have a policy not to reveal hospital statistics. But we are seeing kids with dengue. One of them, a three-year-old, died in the hospital on Sunday as it was too late for her to be treated. We have sent the cause of death as dengue in the death declaration form," a senior doctor from the Apollo Children's Hospital said.
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Officials at the directorate of public health said the reports they receive did not ring alarm bells, though the city continues to report nearly 34% of the total number of cases in the state. The disease surveillance cell of the directorate gets daily reports from Chennai corporation, which gets reports from hospitals across the city. This year, the corporation has reported 221 cases till July 14 against 648 cases from across the state this year. "There is no alarming rise in the number of cases in the city. We have got no dengue deaths through out the year," said Dr Saravanan, joint director, directorate of public health.
The difference in numbers reported by Chennai corporation and private hospitals is not new. Every year, from July to February, private hospitals say they see deaths due to dengue. Yet the civic body records none.
First dengue death in Orissa
Riyan Ramanath V , TNN | Jul 20, 2011, 12.26am IST
BALANGIR: In the first ever case of casualty due to vector-borne dengu fever in Orissa, a youth of Balangir was confirmed to have died on Monday in a private nursing home in Burla. Although the district health officials are yet to confirm the report officially, they admitted the blood sample of the patient tested at a private pathology at Burla revealed dengu positive.
After initial complaint of high fever and acute muscle pain by Dipti Prakash Rai, 35, a resident of Balangir town, doctors at Balangir police hospital suspected dengu and asked him to undergo tests. The test (screening test on card method) revealed positive for dengu (1gh, 1gm) with NSi antigen positive.
Rai initially consulted the police hospital doctor T K Palit. "When he came to me he was shivering. He complained of severe muscle pain and headache. All tests including malaria tested negative. Then I asked him to get a dengu test done," the doctor said. According to Palit, Rai exhibited a low platelet count, which proved fatal in his case. "While normally the platelet count should be more than one lakh, the patient had only 45,000," Palit said.
What was puzzling for the doctor was that Rai had no history of travelling. It is likely he could have been infected in Balangir, most possibly through an outsider who had dengu, Palit said.
Meanwhile, district health officials have sounded an alert here. The chief district medical officer (CDMO) Brikant Kindo said he had a discussion with the collector to tackle the situation. "We have asked the doctors to collect blood samples of the relatives of the patient," Kindo said, adding there is no need to panic as it is yet to be ascertained whether dengu originated in Balangir.
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Delhi: Dengue Fever Returns, One Dead
PTI | New Delhi | Jul 23, 2011
Dengue fever has returned to the city as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi today reported one death due to the infection and six new cases in the past one month, taking the total count of people affected by the virus this year to 11.
"A resident of Shivam Enclave in Shahdara South passed away at the Ganga Ram hospital on July 9. It was notified to us on 23rd July. People should be conscious of their surroundings and check mosquito breeding. While cleaning their coolers, they should swipe the walls well so that no egg stays back in the cooler and fertilises," MCD's Health Committee Chairman V K Monga said.
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