Outbreak of West Nile fever in Alappuzha Kerala

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br> Solving the mystery that hung over the recent outbreak of fevers resembling Japanese Encephalitis (JE) here, it has been confirmed that several of these cases were that of the West Nile fever, an illness categorized as a ‘potentially serious’ one across the world.<br> <br> The exact details of the prevalence of the WN fever and its virus, which has been found to be spreading slowly along the coastal belt, are yet to be made public with the study still on. However, the confirmation that the recent outbreak included cases of WN has been done at the field station of the National Institute of Virology (NIV) here.<br> <br> <br> According to State Health Services Additional Director N. Sreedhar, there was no official information yet, though unofficial information reaching him mentioned the presence of WN in Alappuzha. Terming the fever “a mild variant of JE”, Dr. Sreedhar said an official report on the situation was expected shortly.<br> <script type="text/javascript"> ch_client = "homeo_jana"; ch_width = 336; ch_height = 280; ch_type = "mpu"; ch_sid = "Chitika Default"; ch_color_site_link = "#CC2F16"; ch_color_title = "#CC2F16"; ch_color_border = "#FFFFFF"; ch_color_text = "#442DD6"; ch_color_bg = "#8AC5D1"; </script> <script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript"> </script><br> <br> Meanwhile, experts say there are strong reasons to believe that WN virus could be getting more common in Alappuzha and parts of Kottayam too, because strong suspicions were raised about WN prevalence back in 2006 itself, during the Chikungunya outbreak here.<br> </div>

Outbreak of West Nile fever in Alappuzha Kerala

Solving the mystery that hung over the recent outbreak of fevers resembling Japanese Encephalitis (JE) here, it has been confirmed that sev...

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