More than 200 persons in Sikrauli village of Kakori in the state capital have taken ill with a mystery fever. Health officials are camping in the village to manage and monitor the situation. Chief medical officer, Lucknow, Dr SNS Yadav claimed no death has been reported so far. The matter caught the attention of the health officials on Sunday evening after health officials received an SMS stating that more than 50% of the 10,000 residents of Sikrauli village were in the grip of a mystery fever. The message sent alarm bells ringing and a health team rushed to the village to take stock of the situation. The team comprising the CMO and additional CMO (vector borne diseases control) organised a camp in the village where 200 persons were listed as sick till Tuesday evening. CMO Dr Yadav claimed that the patients have been given medicines to control fever. He suspects the fever is of viral origin, though a confirmed report would come only after laboratory tests. We have sent the blood sample of some patients to lab to ascertain the cause of illness, he said. Dr Yadav blamed poor civic condition in the village as a contributory factor to the disease situation. The sewage and garbage disposal systems in the village are in a bad state owing to acute shortage of safai workers. The onus of cleaning the village lies on just one man, he claimed. Biohazard name: Unidentified Fever Illness Biohazard level: 3/4 Hight Biohazard desc.: Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level. Symptoms:
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:45:31 +0000
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