As many as 77 cases of Hepatitis ‘A’, 528 gastroenteritis and 1,300 typhoid cases have been reported from the district between January to May.
According to District Surveillance Officer for Epidemic Diseases Dr A V Narayanaswamy, the doctors team has visited the places and have controlled the diseases within two days of its outbreak.
Raipur: Those who survive the bullets in Bastar, could die of ordinary disease, as the people of Bijapur district discovered, when it took 24 hours for medical help to arrive in seven interior villages gripped by a mysterious diarrhoea like epidemic. By then, 13 people had died, including eight women and three children.
Eleven slum dwellers, including two children, were taken ill after drinking tap water on Wednesday.
Of the 11 persons who displayed symptoms of water contamination like diarrhoea and vomiting, two were treated by the BBMP health officers while nine including two children were admitted to a private nursing home, said the Palike
This study was conducted to determine the etiology of diarrhoea in a hospital setting in Kolkata. Active surveillance was conducted for 2 years on two random days per week by enrolling every fifth diarrhoeal patient admitted to the Infectious Diseases and Beliaghata General Hospital in Kolkata.
AFTER Dindigul and Theni, now several cases of diarrhoea have been reported for a second time within two weeks near Attur in Salem district. Nearly 100 people, including children, have been suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting since Tuesday at Sadhasivapuram near Attur.
Pune With the city having buckled under a volley of diseases during the last monsoon, particularly swine flu, the civic authorities are keeping their fingers crossed.
ATTUR: Twenty-eight people of Sadasivapuram village near here have been admitted to hospitals complaining of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
While eight of them have been admitted to the intensive care unit of Attur Government Head Quarters Hospital, the rest are in nearby Primary Health Centres.
Karachi is among those densely populated cities of the Third World, where epidemic of diarrhoea has taken a chronic shape due to non-provision of clean drinking water.
PARADIP: A large number of villagers in Erasama and Balikuda have been affected by diarrhoea after consuming contaminated water. Worse, there are no proper medical facilities in the areas to cater to all the affected villagers.
