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Nearly 600 cases of dengue have been reported so far in the country, of which a majority of cases are from the national capital, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramdoss said today. Thirty deaths have been reported in the country, including 12 in Delhi.
"There have been 589 dengue cases in the country. In Delhi 352 cases were reported while 237 are from other states," he told reporters here after releasing a national report on street food survey.
Nearly 131 dengue cases have been reported from Uttar Pradesh, 52 cases from Haryana and nine in Rajasthan.

Das Chikungunya-Virus auf der französischen Insel Réunion ist nicht zu stoppen. Fast 160.000 Menschen sind mittlerweile erkrankt, 77 sollen gestorben sein. Selbst die französische Hauptstadt hat das Virus bereits erreicht: Es gibt mindestens 30 Infizierte.

Chikungunya-Fieber verursacht im Wesentlichen die gleichen Symptome wie das Dengue-Fieber. Nach einer Inkubationszeit von zwei bis acht Tagen kommt es plötzlich zu hohem Fieber, Schüttelfrost und Gliederschmerzen sowie Gelenkschmerzen. Danach kommt es zu einer Phase der Besserung mit Fieberabfall und Besserung der Allgemeinsymptome. In einigen Fällen kommt es zu einem erneuten Fieberanstieg mit sehr starken Schmerzen der kleinen Gelenke und Hautausschlag. In schweren Verläufen halten die Gelenkbeschwerden monatelang an.

Der Name leitet sich von der einheimischen Bezeichnung für starkes Krümmen ab. Die verkrampfte Beugehaltung entsteht als Folge der starken Gelenkschmerzen.

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

"The government is talking about the death of children in government hospitals. What about the children who died in private nursing homes or in villages without medicines?'' so Dr. Radha Mohan Agarwal, Kinderarzt in Gorakhpur

"We do not have the funds. We had a target to vaccinate 7 million children up to the age of 10, but we could vaccinate only 200,000 children.'' (O.P. Singh, state director-general of health)

"The number of dead due to the brain fever or Japanese encephalitis outbreak in eastern Uttar Pradesh has risen to 100. Most of the dead in Gorakhpur are children and more than 200 persons are in hospital, many of them in a critical condition. The disease has also affected the brain of a large number of children making them disabled for life." (New Delhi TV)

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