Hospitalized Suspect H5N1 Patients in Malda West Bengal
Recombinomics Commentary 02:50
January 30, 2008
“We have been getting patients with high fever and chest pains and we are not being able to detect the source of infection. We have sent quite a few patients to B.R. Singh Hospital in Sealdah.”
However, no one has been confirmed with pneumonia, the known symptom of bird flu.
A team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Delhi and experts from the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, arrived here today to study the situation.
The above comments on hospitalized patients from Malda with bird flu symptoms are cause for concern (see satellite map here and here). Specialists have been brought in and isolations wards have been readied.
There have been other reports of patients with symptoms, but this appears to be the first example of a team of specialists arriving on site.
The media report does not give the number of patients, other than saying there are “quite a few”.
More detail on their symptoms, include chest x-rays results, would be useful.
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