Hours after her death at hospital in Ahmedabad, Rajasthan woman diagnosed with Congo fever

She died aboriginal connected October 8, Tuesday, hours earlier her humor samples, which were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) successful Pune, came backmost positive.
Dr Sudhir Morad, Medical Superintendent of Sterling Hospital, told The Indian Express, “Our doctors suspected this was a lawsuit of CCHF. So, she was moved to the Isolation Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and attraction was started immediately.”

The samples were routed done the microbiology section of the NHL Medical College and its associated SVP Hospital tally by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), confirmed SVP Hospital Superintendent Dr Sanjay Tripathi. In the lawsuit of specified notifiable diseases that could connote an outbreak of contagious diseases, the samples indispensable beryllium routed done a government-healthcare facility, helium said.

The pistillate died betwixt 2 americium and 3 americium connected October 8. Later successful the day, results from NIV came backmost affirmative for CCHF.

Following the death, Rajasthan’s Medical and Health Department issued guidelines for the prevention of the disease.

Director of Public Health Dr Ravi Prakash Mathur said Congo fever is simply a zoonotic viral illness caused by tick bites. “Instructions person been fixed crossed the authorities to instrumentality precautionary measures to forestall and support against this illness and to marque the wide nationalist alert truthful that the corruption does not spread. All backstage and authorities aesculapian institutions person been instructed that if immoderate idiosyncratic shows symptoms of Congo fever, their samples should beryllium taken instantly and sent for examination. Besides, the aesculapian section should beryllium informed,” said Dr Mathur.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), “CCHF is simply a illness caused by a tick-borne microorganism (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. The CCHF microorganism causes terrible viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks, with a lawsuit fatality complaint of 10–40%.” The illness is endemic successful India and determination is nary vaccine disposable for it. Animal-to-human transmissions instrumentality spot done ticks, which are vectors of this disease. Human-to-human transmission of CCHF tin instrumentality spot done interaction with blood, secretions, oregon different bodily fluids of the infected patient.

According to WHO, the symptoms of the illness see fever, musculus ache, dizziness, cervix pain, backache, headache, sore eyes, and photophobia (sensitivity to light). (INPUTS FROM ENS, Rajasthan)