Viral fever, dengue cases expected to rise with monsoon

June 11, 2012

The monsoon has just set in and already hospitals across the city are witnessing an increasing number of viral fever and suspected dengue cases. On an average, every day Dr B.R. Ambedkar Medical College gets five to eight new cases of viral fever for the past one week...
...At Jayanagar General Hospital, too, there has been a substantial increase in the number of viral infection cases for the past few days. “Most people affected by viral infections have common symptoms, like running nose, body pain, headache, sore throat, fever for three or four days, cough and in some cases, wheezing. Those suffering from gastrointestinal infections have diarrohoea, vomiting and dehydration.”

The situation is no different at the paediatric unit of Vani Vilas Hospital. Dr R. Premlatha, Paediatric ICU Incharge, Vani Vilas Hospital, said: “For the past few days, we are getting an increasing number of such cases in our paediatric section and some of these cases are severe. Children are brought in bleeding condition and with shock due to high fever. Few suspected cases of dengue too came in and their reports have been sent to the Virology Institute at Victoria Hospital.”

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