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02-09-2021, 04:23 PM
Soutik Biswas
India correspondent
Published 1 day ago
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At least 50 people, mostly children, have died of the fever, and several hundred have been admitted to hospital in six districts in the eastern part of the state. None of the dead tested positive for Covid-19.
At a time when India appears to be slowly recovering from a deadly second wave of coronavirus, the deaths in Uttar Pradesh have provoked a rash of panicky headlines about a "mystery fever" sweeping through the countryside of India's most populous state.
Physicians in a few of the affected districts - Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Etah, Kasganj and Firozabad - believe dengue, a mosquito-borne viral infection, could be the main cause of deaths.
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In 2014, reacting to increasing cases of children dying of encephalitis and myocarditis - inflammation of the heart muscle - scientists examined 250 afflicted children in Gorakhpur. They found that 160 of them had antibodies to the bacteria that caused scrub typhus.
Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a bacterial infection spread through bites of infected viral mites.
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Earlier, in 2006, scientists investigated another "mystery" outbreak of fever-related deaths among children in Uttar Pradesh. This time they found that the children had died after consuming cassia beans, which grew abundantly in the western part of the state.
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only more investigations and genome analysis will reveal whether the latest spate of "mystery fevers" in India are triggered by dengue alone, or a host of other diseases.
Much more at:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58387520
India correspondent
Published 1 day ago
......
At least 50 people, mostly children, have died of the fever, and several hundred have been admitted to hospital in six districts in the eastern part of the state. None of the dead tested positive for Covid-19.
At a time when India appears to be slowly recovering from a deadly second wave of coronavirus, the deaths in Uttar Pradesh have provoked a rash of panicky headlines about a "mystery fever" sweeping through the countryside of India's most populous state.
Physicians in a few of the affected districts - Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Etah, Kasganj and Firozabad - believe dengue, a mosquito-borne viral infection, could be the main cause of deaths.
......
In 2014, reacting to increasing cases of children dying of encephalitis and myocarditis - inflammation of the heart muscle - scientists examined 250 afflicted children in Gorakhpur. They found that 160 of them had antibodies to the bacteria that caused scrub typhus.
Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a bacterial infection spread through bites of infected viral mites.
......
Earlier, in 2006, scientists investigated another "mystery" outbreak of fever-related deaths among children in Uttar Pradesh. This time they found that the children had died after consuming cassia beans, which grew abundantly in the western part of the state.
......
only more investigations and genome analysis will reveal whether the latest spate of "mystery fevers" in India are triggered by dengue alone, or a host of other diseases.
Much more at:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58387520
