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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

India : Orissa Village Put on High Alert Over Dengue Fever Threat

Via Med India :

" The tribal dominated Balisahi village of Orissa has been put on high alert since a Dengue case was detected here last week.

Twenty two-year-old Pramila Lima, who is four months pregnant, complained of high fever, shivering and acute pain in the limbs. On being taking to the nearby Behrampur hospital, she was found to be suffering from Malaria.

She was later tested positive with Dengue following lateral tests. The doctors in the district hospital say that the villagers have been alerted and their blood samples have been collected.

"When our staff came to know about that a case of Dengue has been detected in our block, we immediately came here along with our staff, ANM (auxiliary nurse mid-wife), health worker male, Laboratory division and AYUSH doctors.

We came to the village and conducted a health check-up camp. We have taken the blood samples of all the people here on a slide, and the slides have been sent to the district health headquarters," said Jagdish Panigrahi, a doctor from the district hospital."

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