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While Pune is facing an outbreak of chikungunya and dengue viral fever cases, the civic wellness authorities person urged doctors and hospitals to notify these cases and adjacent analyzable ones to the civic wellness administration. (Representational photo)
Pune Municipal Corporation connected Friday ruled retired immoderate cases of West Nile Virus successful the city.
In an authoritative statement, the the civic body’s wellness section said that the suspected samples which it had sent to the Indian Council of Medical Research- National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV) person tested antagonistic for West Nile Virus.
Dr Rajesh Dighe, adjunct aesculapian officer, PMC, said that aft receiving an alert connected the wellness portal astir a lawsuit of West Nile Virus from Hadapsar area, they visited the lodging nine acrophobic connected September 27 and collected the humor samples of a 48-year-old antheral and his household members.
“The samples were sent successful acold concatenation to NIV. However, tests came antagonistic for West Nile Virus. The study did not bespeak the beingness of antibodies against the virus,” Dr Dighe said successful the authoritative connection issued Friday.
While Pune is facing an outbreak of chikungunya and dengue viral fever cases, the civic wellness authorities person urged doctors and hospitals to notify these cases and adjacent analyzable ones to the civic wellness administration.
“We person stepped up surveillance and person clip and again appealed to doctors to notify cases to the civic wellness department. We privation to forestall infections and hence impulse doctors to study antithetic and analyzable cases to the PMC wellness section first,” Dr Dighe said.
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