Commentary
Hospitalized
Malda Health Care Workers Raise H5N1 Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary
14:41
December 22, 2008
At least four culling personnel were taken ill during culling and mopping operations in Malda last evening. One of them Mohd Ellius was admitted to the isolation ward for observation. According to the Malda CMOH, Dr Srikanta Roy, Mohd Ellius was suffering from abdominal pain.
Two others, one Mohd Sazzad from Satgharia and another person with the same name, from Sujapur, who were working as labourers, fell ill.
Including two employees in the hospital and the Malda Sadar Mulpur was admitted to primary health center
The above comments describe illness associated with cullers in Malda, as well as two hospital workers (see Malda map). It is unclear if the two sets of cullers described above are the same four people, and there is little information on symptoms, so the relationship of their illness to the culling remains unclear.
However, concern is increased by the hospitalization of two hospital workers. More information on their symptoms and linkage, if any, to cullers would be useful.
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