Imphal : At least twenty-seven persons have been reportedly infected and hospitalized with a “mysterious disease” in Churachandpur district of Manipur during the past three days. Interestingly even as the dreaded avian influenza continues to stalk neighboring Assam state, the Churachandpur patients reportedly show headache, fever, coughing and shivering. Besides, deaths of fowls have been reported in Misao Lhavom village, in the district.
According to reports reaching here, villagers of Misao Lhavom village, about 7 km from Churachandpur district headquarters, were infected following an ‘outbreak’ of an unknown ‘disease’. The ‘disease’ has left at least 27 ill, including an infant, and are currently undergoing treatment at the Churachandpur district hospital, a reliable source said. The source also revealed that mysterious deaths of fowls were reported from the village.
According to sources from the Churachandpur district hospital, the first case was reported on Sunday, January 4 when a 15 year girl from the village was brought for treatment. The number increased to 16 on Monday, while another 10 cases was reported Tuesday, the source said. All the cases were similar, the source added.
According to the chief medical officer (CMO) of the hospital, S Haojel, noting the high possibility of malaria in the area, they have tested blood samples of the patients. However, the results were negative, stated the CMO and informed that the symptoms of the ‘unknown disease’ include headache, fever, cough and shivering. The CMO further informed that all the 27 patients have been kept separately at the female health workers’ hostel which is currently lying vacant. To take care of the 27 patients, nurses from other health sub-centers of the district have been deployed.
Meanwhile, reliable sources informed that following the reports of the death of fowls in the Misao Lhavom village, a veterinary team has been dispatched on Tuesday evening to verify the cause.
Source: The Morung Express
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Bird flu scare in Manipur
IMPHAL, Jan 6 – Sudden death of 17 chicken and subsequent hospitalization of around 30 villagers with a mysterious illness has evoked a bird flu scare in Manipur’s Churachandpur district bordering Myanmar on Tuesday.
Some of the villagers suspects a revisit of bird flu in their village – Misao Lhavom, 72 kms south of here. However, Dr K Gopal Singh, Specialist (Disease) of State’s Veterinary and Animal Husbandry department said, “there’s no clinical symptoms of the disease as yet”.
Dr Gopal who led an 11-member experts team to the village and collected blood samples, said, “we suspect it to be a case of fowl-cholera”.
He added that some of the sick chicken were responding to the tetracycline injections. However, the blood samples will be sent to a testing centre in Bhopal for further confirmation on Wednesday.He said department officials posted in the district have alerted the villagers on do’s and don’ts.
According to Sengkhomang Misao, village chief of Misao Lhavom, all of a sudden the chicken died one by one since Sunday onwards. Several villagers have also been hospitalised.
“So far, around 30 villagers were admitted in the district hospital with fever and vomiting”, a resident of the hill district told this reporter over telephone.
Villagers believe that it might be related to the beef curry which the villagers enjoyed during the recent Christmas celebration.
Manipur had witnessed outbreak of bird flu in July 2007. It was only on November 4 last year, that the Central authority had announced that the State is free from bird flu.
Source: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jan0709/ne2
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According to reports reaching here, villagers of Misao Lhavom village, about 7 km from Churachandpur district headquarters, were infected following an ‘outbreak’ of an unknown ‘disease’. The ‘disease’ has left at least 27 ill, including an infant, and are currently undergoing treatment at the Churachandpur district hospital, a reliable source said. The source also revealed that mysterious deaths of fowls were reported from the village.
According to sources from the Churachandpur district hospital, the first case was reported on Sunday, January 4 when a 15 year girl from the village was brought for treatment. The number increased to 16 on Monday, while another 10 cases was reported Tuesday, the source said. All the cases were similar, the source added.
According to the chief medical officer (CMO) of the hospital, S Haojel, noting the high possibility of malaria in the area, they have tested blood samples of the patients. However, the results were negative, stated the CMO and informed that the symptoms of the ‘unknown disease’ include headache, fever, cough and shivering. The CMO further informed that all the 27 patients have been kept separately at the female health workers’ hostel which is currently lying vacant. To take care of the 27 patients, nurses from other health sub-centers of the district have been deployed.
Meanwhile, reliable sources informed that following the reports of the death of fowls in the Misao Lhavom village, a veterinary team has been dispatched on Tuesday evening to verify the cause.
Source: The Morung Express
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Bird flu scare in Manipur
IMPHAL, Jan 6 – Sudden death of 17 chicken and subsequent hospitalization of around 30 villagers with a mysterious illness has evoked a bird flu scare in Manipur’s Churachandpur district bordering Myanmar on Tuesday.
Some of the villagers suspects a revisit of bird flu in their village – Misao Lhavom, 72 kms south of here. However, Dr K Gopal Singh, Specialist (Disease) of State’s Veterinary and Animal Husbandry department said, “there’s no clinical symptoms of the disease as yet”.
Dr Gopal who led an 11-member experts team to the village and collected blood samples, said, “we suspect it to be a case of fowl-cholera”.
He added that some of the sick chicken were responding to the tetracycline injections. However, the blood samples will be sent to a testing centre in Bhopal for further confirmation on Wednesday.He said department officials posted in the district have alerted the villagers on do’s and don’ts.
According to Sengkhomang Misao, village chief of Misao Lhavom, all of a sudden the chicken died one by one since Sunday onwards. Several villagers have also been hospitalised.
“So far, around 30 villagers were admitted in the district hospital with fever and vomiting”, a resident of the hill district told this reporter over telephone.
Villagers believe that it might be related to the beef curry which the villagers enjoyed during the recent Christmas celebration.
Manipur had witnessed outbreak of bird flu in July 2007. It was only on November 4 last year, that the Central authority had announced that the State is free from bird flu.
Source: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jan0709/ne2
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