Kanpur: City’s first patient Zika virus in Uttar Pradesh It was detected after a 57-year-old warrant officer of the Air Force Station here tested positive for the infection at a laboratory in Pune in Kanpur late on Saturday night.
Chief Medical Officer, Kanpur, Nepal Singh said, the officer was being treated with high fever at 7 Air Force Hospital in the district and his blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. The temperature was alarmingly high. high for a week.
At least 200 more samples of those who came in contact with the patient and those with similar symptoms have been sent to a Pune laboratory and isolated at their homes. A team of health experts from Delhi has been sent to Kanpur to contain the spread of the infection, while the health department of UP formed two medical teams on Sunday.
A team led by Additional CMO Dr Subodh Prakash went to Kanpur’s Pardevanpur Pokharpur locality, where the officer lives, and collected samples of 200 people, including his wife, son and daughter. However, his family lives in Pune and Bangalore and is presently present in Kanpur. The second team inspected 7 Air Force Hospital and gave instructions for fogging and sanitization.
District Magistrate, Kanpur, Vishak ji said that all necessary steps are being taken after confirmation of the first Zika positive patient in UP.
“An emergency meeting of medical college doctors will be held on Monday and civic staff have been instructed to start mosquito repellent fogging exercise. The virus does not spread like Covid, it is vector borne like dengue,” the DM said.
The first Zika infection was confirmed in Kerala on 8 July. According to a WHO report, Zika viral RNA was detected through RT-PCR test at the National Institute of Virology Pune in a blood sample collected from a 24-year-old pregnant woman. Trivandrum.
On July 31, Maharashtra also reported its first Zika case from Belsar village in Pune district, when a 50-year-old woman tested positive.
Avoiding mosquito bites during the day and in the evening is important to prevent the spread of infection. Aedes mosquitoes breed in small collections of water around homes, schools, and workplaces and it is important to eliminate these sites with appropriate methods.
Chief Medical Officer, Kanpur, Nepal Singh said, the officer was being treated with high fever at 7 Air Force Hospital in the district and his blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. The temperature was alarmingly high. high for a week.
At least 200 more samples of those who came in contact with the patient and those with similar symptoms have been sent to a Pune laboratory and isolated at their homes. A team of health experts from Delhi has been sent to Kanpur to contain the spread of the infection, while the health department of UP formed two medical teams on Sunday.
A team led by Additional CMO Dr Subodh Prakash went to Kanpur’s Pardevanpur Pokharpur locality, where the officer lives, and collected samples of 200 people, including his wife, son and daughter. However, his family lives in Pune and Bangalore and is presently present in Kanpur. The second team inspected 7 Air Force Hospital and gave instructions for fogging and sanitization.
District Magistrate, Kanpur, Vishak ji said that all necessary steps are being taken after confirmation of the first Zika positive patient in UP.
“An emergency meeting of medical college doctors will be held on Monday and civic staff have been instructed to start mosquito repellent fogging exercise. The virus does not spread like Covid, it is vector borne like dengue,” the DM said.
The first Zika infection was confirmed in Kerala on 8 July. According to a WHO report, Zika viral RNA was detected through RT-PCR test at the National Institute of Virology Pune in a blood sample collected from a 24-year-old pregnant woman. Trivandrum.
On July 31, Maharashtra also reported its first Zika case from Belsar village in Pune district, when a 50-year-old woman tested positive.
Avoiding mosquito bites during the day and in the evening is important to prevent the spread of infection. Aedes mosquitoes breed in small collections of water around homes, schools, and workplaces and it is important to eliminate these sites with appropriate methods.
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