It is official, despite what TN Government claims - CHIKV is here in India, & it is almost an epidemic. I know because about 12 people have had it in last 2 months in my street alone. But what the Old CM says is also not true - no deaths reported so far; that is, if you are not hanging to the coat of Prakash Kart & co., & willing to trust CDC.
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:26pm ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Travellers to parts of Africa and Asia are returning with a new mosquito-borne virus and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Thursday it could become entrenched in new areas. Some people returning to Europe, the United States, Canada, Martinique and French Guyana reported cases of Chikungunya fever (CHIKV) in 2006 and large outbreaks have been reported in Indian Ocean islands and in India, according to the report.
The virus first emerged in Tanzania in 1953 and, though no deaths have been recorded, it can cause a debilitating illness whose symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle and joint pain and rash. No specific drug therapy or vaccine exists to treat it.
"Suspected cases should be reported promptly to local and state public health officials and to CDC," it said, adding that in the week after the virus had been detected it was essential that patients be screened from contact with mosquitoes.
Around 180,000 suspected CHIKV fever cases were also detected in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra since early this year, the report said.
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:26pm ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Travellers to parts of Africa and Asia are returning with a new mosquito-borne virus and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Thursday it could become entrenched in new areas. Some people returning to Europe, the United States, Canada, Martinique and French Guyana reported cases of Chikungunya fever (CHIKV) in 2006 and large outbreaks have been reported in Indian Ocean islands and in India, according to the report.
The virus first emerged in Tanzania in 1953 and, though no deaths have been recorded, it can cause a debilitating illness whose symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle and joint pain and rash. No specific drug therapy or vaccine exists to treat it.
"Suspected cases should be reported promptly to local and state public health officials and to CDC," it said, adding that in the week after the virus had been detected it was essential that patients be screened from contact with mosquitoes.
Around 180,000 suspected CHIKV fever cases were also detected in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra since early this year, the report said.
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