Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Tamil Nadu
Spike in scrub typhus cases in city
Pratiksha Ramkumar,TNN | Feb 2, 2015, 08.36 AM IST
COIMBATORE: There has been a huge spike in the number of scrub typhus or rickettsial fever cases, a very rare form of fever, in the last two months. Doctors say they have seen at least 28 cases in the last two months.
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Scrub typhus fever began surfacing in the city around three to four years ago. Two major hospitals in the city, PSG Hospitals and Kovai Medical Centre and Hospitals (KMCH), say they have seen 100 and 60 patients respectively over the past two years. An observational study by PSG Hospitals recently found that of the 633 fever cases the hospital treated between 2012 and 2014, 95 tested positive for scrub typhus fever, said Dr Dinesh Narasimhan, general physician at the hospital.
Coimbatore has officially recorded only one scrub typhus case in the last one year, because unlike dengue, malaria or H1N1, it is not mandatory to officially report scrub typhus cases.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...typhus-cases-in-city/articleshow/46091453.cms
Spike in scrub typhus cases in city
Pratiksha Ramkumar,TNN | Feb 2, 2015, 08.36 AM IST
COIMBATORE: There has been a huge spike in the number of scrub typhus or rickettsial fever cases, a very rare form of fever, in the last two months. Doctors say they have seen at least 28 cases in the last two months.
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Scrub typhus fever began surfacing in the city around three to four years ago. Two major hospitals in the city, PSG Hospitals and Kovai Medical Centre and Hospitals (KMCH), say they have seen 100 and 60 patients respectively over the past two years. An observational study by PSG Hospitals recently found that of the 633 fever cases the hospital treated between 2012 and 2014, 95 tested positive for scrub typhus fever, said Dr Dinesh Narasimhan, general physician at the hospital.
Coimbatore has officially recorded only one scrub typhus case in the last one year, because unlike dengue, malaria or H1N1, it is not mandatory to officially report scrub typhus cases.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...typhus-cases-in-city/articleshow/46091453.cms
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