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India Dengue 2016

West Bengal

Dengue claims six lives in West Bengal

PTI | Aug 2, 2016, 08.54 PM IST

During a health review meeting, CM asked the dept to issue an advisory to remove stagnant water from market places, schools, hospitals, railway stations among others.

KOLKATA: At least six persons have died of dengue this monsoon season in West Bengal after which chief minister Mamata Banerjee issued instructions to remove the stagnant water in urban areas so that mosquito larvae cannot breed.
Health department officials said the first dengue death was reported in June end and so far six people have died.
"So far in our state we had witnessed strain one and three of dengue virus, but since last year we are seeing a shift to strain two and four. Mortality is higher in these two strains as it quickly leads to multiple organ failure," state Director of Health Services Biswaranjan Satpathy said.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...lives-in-West-Bengal/articleshow/53509929.cms

National (Likely a massive undercount. NVBDCP had reported 8,307 cases with 10 fatalities including 2,753 cases, 5 fatal in Kerala to June 28th. How updated numbers can be lower is baffling. - Ro)

12 people killed by dengue so far this year
17:39 HRS IST
New Delhi, Aug 2 (PTI) Dengue has so far claimed 12 lives this rainy season as about 8,000 cases were reported in the country, with Karnataka registering five deaths, the government said today.

Kerala and Odisha have registered maximum number of cases with 2,252 and 2,171 incidents respectively.

Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir have not reported a single dengue case in June and July.
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http://www.ptinews.com/news/7720252_12-people-killed-by-dengue-so-far-this-year.html
 
Telangana

Suspected dengue death in city sparks fear of outbreak
By Express News Service Published: 03rd August 2016 05:41 AM Last Updated: 03rd August 2016 05:41 AM

HYDERABAD: A forty six year old man reportdely died of dengue in a private hospital on Monday.

The patient, A Ramulu from Langer House developed multiple organ failure while undergoing treatment for the disease. However, Telangana Health officials on Tuesday said that they have yet to confirm the death.

When his fever did not subside in spite of medication, Ramulu got admitted to the hospital in the fourth week of July.

Additional director of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, Dr S Prabhavathi, said that they were investigating two deaths where dengue was suspected.
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http://www.newindianexpress.com/citi...cle3560720.ece

West Bengal

Dengue Toll Rises To 7 In West Bengal
17 hours ago
Kolkata24x7 News desk

Kolkata: Dengue has claimed one more life in Howrah taking the death toll to 7 in West Bengal in the worst outbreak this year. The deceased has been identified as Shahim Iqbal, who died at Iqbalpur nursing home on Tuesday.

Health department officials said the first dengue death was reported in June end and so far six people have died.
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http://www.english.kolkata24x7.com/k...es-west-bengal
 
Bengal toll 9 after two more dengue deaths
By IANS Published: 04th August 2016 08:48 PM Last Updated: 04th August 2016 08:48 PM

KOLKATA: Two more patients succumbed to dengue in West Bengal, taking the death toll to nine in the state, an official said on Thursday.

"We have confirmed two more deaths since Wednesday; so the toll now is nine. As many as 1,117 cases have been reported since January this year," Health Services Director B.R. Satpathi said.
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http://www.newindianexpress.com/nat...e-dengue-deaths/2016/08/04/article3563140.ece

KARNATAKA

MYSURU, August 4, 2016
Updated: August 4, 2016 05:51 IST
Suspected dengue death in Mysuru

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

A college girl died of suspected dengue here on Wednesday. Bindushree, a II PU student, was running a fever and was admitted to a private hospital. She died early on Wednesday and the cause was attributed to suspected dengue.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/suspected-dengue-death-in-mysuru/article8940837.ece
 
http://nvbdcp.gov.in/den-cd.html

Given that state sources in West Bengal, for example, are reporting 9 deaths, it is likely that the following is a significant undercount. - Ro

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Comparison to previous years:

2015: 9,874 cases, 25 fatal to July 29th
2014: 5,218 cases, 8 fatal to July 31st
2013: 16,635 cases, 57 fatal to July 31st
2012: 8,693 cases, 70 fatal to July 31st
2011: 2,218 cases, 12 fatal to July 31st
 
West Bengal

Dengue death toll rises to 10 in Bengal
Press Trust of India | Kolkata
August 5, 2016 Last Updated at 20:22 IST

The city saw its first dengue death this season, with a 21-year-old youth hailing from Topsia in east Kolkata succumbing to the vector-borne disease, taking the statewide toll to 10.
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http://www.business-standard.com/ar...oll-rises-to-10-in-bengal-116080501784_1.html

Uttar Pradesh

Dengue claims a victim in Allahabad WHEN WILL FOGGING START ?
Friday, 05 August 2016 16:58
Written by V.S DATTA (Editor , N.I.P Allahabad )

A dengue patient, who was admitted to a local private hospital when his condition became highly critical, could not survive. That must be the first dengue death in Allahabad this season. The deceased had been brought here from a village in Pratapgarh Kunda. So the CMO will instantly claim that there is nothing to worry about as the victim did not hail from Allahabad city.But this is no excuse to act with complacence.
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http://www.activeindiatv.com/compon...-victim-in-allahabad-when-will-fogging-start-

Chhattisgarh

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http://www.patrika.com/news/sukma/s...udying-in-student-polmplli-potakebin-1367919/
 
Two more patients succumb to dengue
New Delhi, Aug 7, 2016, DHNS:
Deaths were reported at Safdarjung hospital
Two more dengue deaths were reported in the capital taking the count to three. The deaths were reported at the Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital.

?Two male patients succumbed to dengue infection at the hospital. The deaths were recorded on July 27. Both the victims were residents of Delhi and were being treated,? said a senior doctor of Safdarjung Hospital.

The hospital alone has seen 155 positive cases for dengue so far, confirmed the doctor. While some are admitted at the hospital, others are receiving treatment at home.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/562848/two-more-patients-succumb-dengue.html

West Bengal

Dengue claims 11 lives in Bengal


IANS | Kolkata | 06 August, 2016

The death toll due to dengue in West Bengal has gone up to 11, an official said on Saturday.
"As many as 1,422 cases have been reported since January this year," Health Services Director B R Satpathi said.
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Read more at http://www.thestatesman.com/news/be...ves-in-bengal/158553.html#Bx1zMpxExomLGqix.99
 
Karnataka

Death audit says only three died of dengue, not 17

Vinobha KT | TNN | Aug 7, 2016, 07.57 PM IST

MANGALURU: While Dakshin Kannada district recorded nearly 400 cases of dengue, 17 deaths have been reported since January this year. However, as per the records of the department of health and family welfare, only three deaths have been confirmed due to dengue.
Though the department has recorded 17 deaths, the district-level death audit committee after the completion of auditing in 11 cases, has come to a conclusion that only three persons died due to dengue. Meanwhile, the department is yet to complete the death audit on six remaining cases.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ied-of-dengue-not-17/articleshow/53586840.cms

Comment: This does not mean that the patients did not die of dengue. The department does not accept a positive dengue test as proof unless it is carried out by a government lab. Positive tests from private hospitals are ignored. - Ro

West Bengal: 13 dead and 112 new dengue cases reported
A 10-year-old girl, who was infected with the virus and admitted to a hospital, died on Sunday morning.

By: PTI | Kolkata | Published:August 7, 2016 9:30 pm

Two more persons have died of dengue in West Bengal, taking the toll to 13 in the vector-borne disease since January, with 112 new cases reporting in the last 24 hours, officials said on Sunday. A 10-year-old girl, who was infected with the virus and admitted to a hospital, died on Sunday morning, state Director of Health Services Biswaranjan Satpathy told PTI.
?The girl was a resident of the Salt Lake area and was suffering for the last one week. She was admitted to the BC Roy Hospital five days ago and died today morning,? he said. Doctors said that a 42-year-old woman from Mukundapur area had died of dengue on Saturday.
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http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ad-and-112-new-dengue-cases-reported-2960147/
 
West Bengal

Drive against dengue

A Staff Reporter
Howrah reported it's first dengue death this season on August 2. "The patient, Fahim Ahmed, 22, lived in Tikiapara but was admitted to a nursing home in Diamond Harbour where he died," said Bhabani Das, Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH), Howrah district. Das said, till July 31 this year, the district has reported 26 cases of dengue.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160808/jsp/calcutta/story_101208.jsp#.V6jr_rgrKUk
 
Bengal's dengue toll reaches 14
IANS | Kolkata
August 9, 2016 Last Updated at 19:04 IST


With one more confirmed death due to dengue, the death toll due to the outbreak of the disease in West Bengal has gone up to 14, a state Health Department official said on Tuesday.

"In the last 48 hours, 150 new cases have been reported, taking the total number of dengue positive cases to 1,742 since January," Health Services Director Biswaranjan Satpathy said.


The latest death was reported on July 4 in South 24 Parganas but was confirmed on Tuesday as a dengue death.
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http://www.business-standard.com/ar...-s-dengue-toll-reaches-14-116080901455_1.html
 
West Bengal

Dengue: CMC still in denial

Our Bureau
South Calcutta reported its first dengue casualty since June on Tuesday, a seven-year-old girl, but the municipal authorities remained in denial and contested the cause of death even as the toll in the current outbreak rose to 15.

Rai Saha, a student of Class II at Dolna Day School in Kasba, and Srija Ghosh, a 22-year-old Bankura woman living and studying in Salt Lake, died of dengue-induced complications within a day of each other.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160810/jsp/calcutta/story_101634.jsp#.V6sB85grKUk
 
Rajasthan

Woman Died From Dengue, Medical Department Joashs His Lapel
Magazine News Network Posted: 2016-08-11 12:57:38 East Updated: 2016-08-11 12:57:38 East

A female resident of the village of Tehsil Nadbai Gaduli died during treatment at Jaipur. Dengue death is said to be family members.

However, doctors have not confirmed the department in this regard. Officials say the woman's death is being aware of.

Ramwati Gaduli village resident families feeling awry District Arbim was hospitalized. Plates family said that rate is down, the patient was taken to Jaipur for treatment. It died during treatment.
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http://rajasthanpatrika.patrika.com...s-death-from-dengue-in-bharatpur-2305089.html
 
West Bengal

Down with dengue, youth dies of 'platelet overdose'

Prithvijit Mitra & Tamaghna Banerjee | Aug 12, 2016, 12.25 AM IST

Kolkata: Twenty-four-year-old Ruman Ghosh, who died of dengue on Thursday, may have had a platelet overdose, according to doctors at AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake.
Ruman, a third-year student at Motijheel College and a resident of Baguiati, had been initially taken to Swasti Nursing Home in north Kolkata on Sunday evening, from where he was admitted to AMRI with blood infection and acute lung injury. His family alleged that negligence on the part of the nursing home led to his death.
"My son died of wrong treatment at the nursing home. Doctors at AMRI told us that had we taken him there a day earlier, he could have been saved. But the doctors at the nursing home never told us the truth and discharged him only when his condition was beyond treatment," said Ruman's father Ranjit, adding he was thinking of lodging a complaint against the nursing home.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...of-platelet-overdose/articleshow/53659677.cms

Uttar Pradesh

Another young man died of dengue in Pratapgarh

Pratapgarh, India Team First Published: 12-08-2016 02:28:53 PMLast updated: 12-08-2016 02:28:53 PM

Million to improve health services to the government machinery but the reality is still much better than before the claim can not be said. Still not managed to prevent dengue is unblemished. That is why the disease in the district killed another young man.

A few days ago the young man why swivel died in a private hospital in Allahabad. Now Aspur Devsra station area resident Smrnath Diawan son Vikas Yadav (20), it is the victim. He was suffering from fever for several days.
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http://www.livehindustan.com/news/u...-man-died-of-dengue-in-pratapgarh-550737.html

Maharashtra

DENGUE CASES SEE 126% RISE IN STATE THIS YEAR

August 11, 2016
With the monsoon season well on its way, medical experts say there has been a sharp rise in dengue cases across the state so far this year.

A whopping 1,778 cases of the mosquito-borne disease were recorded between January and July as against 786 cases in the corresponding period last year. This translates into a 126% rise.

The city areas of Nashik topped the list with the maximum number of cases, followed by Greater Mumbai, Thane and Pune.

The good news, state he alth officials said, is that the number of deaths have reduced considerably.

Experts, however, said that these cases are just the tip of the iceberg as most patients treated in private hospitals in Maharashtra are unreported despite the fact that dengue has been declared a notifiable disease.
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?Two deaths in Kolhapur has been confirmed by the state audit committee that evaluates the medical history of every suspect death of dengue. So far, two deaths in Kolhapur have been confirmed. The six deaths in Pune city reported by private hospitals are yet to be reviewed by the state committee, hence, it has not been included in the state?s dengue casualties,? the official added.
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https://icare4puneblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/dengue-cases-see-126-rise-in-state-this-year/

Odisha

Dengue-hit JSpur woman dies in hospital

Jagatsinghpur: A septuagenarian woman, Kamala Swain, of Kurtanga village in the Raghunathpur area who had been admitted in the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack ten days ago after suffering dengue, died in the hospital on Wednesday. Panic has gripped the village after this dengue-related death.
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http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/2016-08-11-144000.html
 
Dengue claims AAP MLA?s kin in Delhi, second death this year
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Updated: Aug 12, 2016 22:51 IST

Till August 6, the civic body reported 171 cases of dengue, of which 81 were from within Delhi. No deaths were reported. (Hindustan Times)
In the second dengue death this year, a 38-year old woman suffered cardiac arrest and multi-organ failure due to haemorrhagic fever on Friday.
?She had high fever for the last three or four days. It was confirmed yesterday after the test that she had dengue. We took her to a local hospital, where a test showed that her platelet count was 25,000. They referred us to Apollo (Hospital), where her platelet count had gone down to 11,000,? said Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan. The woman, Nazish, is Khan?s sister-in-law.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi...h-this-year/story-79N1gQruiYr84aj7IYPxfI.html

Uttar Pradesh

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Chhattisgarh

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http://www.patrika.com/news/durg/bhilai-second-death-from-dengue-this-month-in-bhilai-1375097/

Delhi

One more dies of dengue
NEW DELHI: August 13, 2016,
MLA Amanatullah's relative succumbs to fever
Dengue claimed one more life in the city taking the death toll to at least four this season. Nazish, 38, succumbed to dengue shock syndrome at Apollo Hospitals on Friday afternoon. The deceased is the sister-in-law of Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan.

?The 38-year-old patient was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on Thursday around midnight. The platelet count was recorded to be 11,000 at the time of admission. The patient succumbed to dengue at 2 pm on Friday,? said a spokesperson, Apollo Hospitals. Nazish had fever for over three days.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/564178/one-more-dies-dengue.html

Most other reports give the number of deaths in Delhi as 2 - Ro
 
Jharkhand

Pregnant woman died of dengue, doctors accused of negligence
bhaskar news | Ogg nominated three times, 2016, 04:50 AM East

Jamshedpur. Darbhanga Kitadih 10 days before the maiden was pregnant Rinke Jha MGM on Saturday died of dengue at the hospital. Doctors confirmed dengue after investigation. However, Rinke's family accused the doctors of negligence and commotion. My hospital management Sakchi police said the situation worsened. The matter was cool.

The dead woman's mother's dream daughter Rinke Jha was here 10 days ago. she has a fever. Was not right. He was admitted to MGM on August 9, where doctors feared dengue. Card was also confirmed in the investigation. The second investigation report confirmed dengue, but ignored by doctors. The unborn child is not old daughter. In the case of the hospital superintendent Dr Vijay Shankar Das said Rinke condition was already bad. He made every effort to save the hospital.
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http://www.bhaskar.com/news/JHA-JAMS-OMC-pregnant-woman-died-of-dengue-news-hindi-5395647-NOR.html
 
Odisha

Dengue death toll climbs to nine
By Express News Service Published: 15th August 2016 06:56 AM Last Updated: 15th August 2016 06:56 AM


BHUBANESWAR: With a Class-VII student reportedly succumbing to the deadly dengue in SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) at Cuttack, death toll due to the vector borne disease touched nine on Sunday. While the number of affected patients crossed 4,000 mark, the State has recorded the second highest dengue deaths in the country this season. Neighbouring West Bengal has reported 13 deaths this year.
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http://www.newindianexpress.com/sta...-climbs-to-nine/2016/08/15/article3580466.ece

Tamil Nadu
Coimbatore reports first dengue death of this season in Tamil Nadu

TNN | Aug 15, 2016, 09.33 AM IST

Coimbatore: Dengue fever claimed the first victim of this season in the state when a 62-year-old man died of the mosquito-borne disease at Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) here on Friday.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...season-in-Tamil-Nadu/articleshow/53705121.cms

West Bengal

Dengue death toll 17, 223 cases on Sunday

Our Bureau
A 32-year-old woman died of dengue at a Nagerbazar hospital on Sunday, taking the death toll this year in the mosquito-borne disease in Calcutta and its surrounding areas to 17.

Health department officials said 223 cases of dengue were detected across the state on Sunday.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160815/jsp/calcutta/story_102520.jsp#.V7GPzpgrKUk
 
New Delhi

Body found in dump foxes cops, turns out to be dengue death

Paras Singh | TNN | Aug 17, 2016, 12.12 AM IST

NEW DELHI: The naked body of a five-year-old girl found near a garbage dump in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj sent the police in a tizzy on Tuesday. They spent the entire day probing if the girl had been sexually assaulted and killed only to come to know in the evening that it was a dengue death.
The girl's death has left her eight-year-old brother in a state of shock as he was eagerly awaiting her to return home for Rakshabandhan.
Family members of the child, Srishti, said that they had buried her on Monday evening. They were clueless about how the body was found near a garbage dump by a passerby.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...t-to-be-dengue-death/articleshow/53729973.cms


Over 250 Dengue Cases Reported In Delhi, 109 In First Two Weeks Of August
Delhi | Press Trust of India | Updated: August 16, 2016 21:31 IST
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NEW DELHI: At least 277 cases of dengue have been reported this season in Delhi with 109 of these being recorded in the first two weeks of August, according to a municipal report released today.
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This year, dengue cases have been reported rather early. The vector-borne disease claimed its first victim on July 21 when a girl from Jafrabad in northeast Delhi died at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital.

Okhla lawmaker Amanatullah Khan's sister-in-law succumbed to dengue on August 12 at Apollo Hospital here, though the municipal authorities have not officially acknowledged any dengue death this year.
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http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/over...elhi-109-in-first-two-weeks-of-august-1444917

Maharashtra

Kalyan man complains of stomach ache, dies to dengue

IMRAN FAZAL | Wed, 17 Aug 2016-08:10am , dna
The 40-year-old man was rushed to two hospitals as he died during treatment with dengue being suspected behind his death.

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A 40-year-old man hailing from Kalyan died of Dengue during treatment as said by doctors, while he was admitted in two private hospitals after complaining about severe stomach ache.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-kalyan-man-complains-of-stomach-ache-dies-to-dengue-2245894

Assam


Dengue outbreak in Assam, 1 dies

Barnali Handique

Guwahati, Aug. 16: Dengue has claimed its first victim in Assam this year with a 36-year-old woman succumbing to the vector- borne disease that has assumed epidemic proportions with Kamrup (metro) identified as the worst-affected district.

Official sources today said the woman, hailing from Noonmati in Kamrup (Metro), died on August 9 after undergoing treatment for a day.

She had reportedly been suffering from fever for about six days. However, sources claim that she had also suffered from septicaemia which complicated the situation, leading to her death.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160817/jsp/northeast/story_102850.jsp#.V7Q_iZgrKUk
 
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