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Posted: April 24 2006 at 4:07pm |
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How is chikungunya virus infection treated? Edited by fluprepper - April 24 2006 at 4:12pm |
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Edited by fluprepper - April 24 2006 at 4:04pm |
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schnards
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Sorry again! Mayby I'm to afraid of it all, but out of my sight there are also some important political signs which brings myself in an allert situation. The President of China visited G.W. Bush last week, the Indian prime minister visited Germany this week, the G8 meeting last week, where they also had that topic BF - pandemic. So, I think when we summarize everything we know, we heard and we read, and you can really say it's speculative - it must be speculative if you watch the information and news situation we have - we all know that it's more than realistic, that the BF outbreak, after all the reported clusters, is there! Am I right or wrong? Let me know! I live in Germany, and here in the daily news bird flu doesn't exsist!!!!
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If it is Chikungunya then there shouldn`t be to much to worry about people brought it back from reunion to france and there is no major outbreak there ( as there are no mosquetos ) but numbers are worringly high if it is h5n1 then this is the start and we will know real soon.......
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But are they reporting any deaths or increase in mortality rate?
If this virus is airborne or spread by mosquitoes but what kind of mosquitoes Maybe regular mosquitoes can now spread this virus anyway this thing could land here in US any day on any flight should we worry about Chikungunya now |
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schnards
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Also I wonder, that there is no follow up in the press or any other media. If it spread so fast like they wrote, how many people will be infected yet?? If the number of infected people grows - assuming that it's really BF - they must tell the rest of the world that there is such a huge outbreak!
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78000!!! That's the size of my town!!!
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kinda makes me wonder if its not a dead end, for its host in india for it anymore and its mixing with H5n1 strain |
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My personal opinion is that it is bird flu blowing in a mild form---a new form of human pandemic influenza---but what exact flu, I do not know.
Maybe it is H5N1, and maybe something else. Whatever it is, India will not tell anyone, even if they know, until hundreds of people suddenly die of it in one place in one day. Hopefully, this virus, whatever it is, will never attain the ability to be supremely deadly like the flu virus of 1918.
India suffered more flu deaths than any other country in the world in 1918, estimated deaths in India were between 20 to 40 million.
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schnards
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So please give me your opinion regarding this case. Doesn't it looks like the first really big BF outbreak which is really out of control?
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GingerT
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You cannot have chikungunya or malaria epidemics without mosquitos. It has been DRY season in India for the past 5 months. VERY few mosquitoes and hardly any rain.
Stupidity has its limits.
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schnards - i agree with you , until reunion, chikungunya never spread quite like this - something has happened to this virus a bad mutation or the other option is a change in the mosquito population i.e increase in numbers or they just now perfer more human blood.
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schnards
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Sorry, what I don't understand is, this virus is just given to humans by mosquitos?! If this is fact, my question is - is it possible that more than 70.000 people catch this virus in a short period???? Doesn't it looks like an airborne "thing"???
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Here is what the article says they have:
Chikungunya is not considered to be fatal. However, in 2005-2006, 77 deaths have been associated with chikungunya on Réunion island.
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Acesh.....Said it perfectly......WHAT illness do they have?
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These people tested positive for WHAT illness? All I can see is dirty drinking water and it's spread by mosquitoes... and now it's spreadingto other large areas in the country? What do they say it is??? |
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>Symptoms include high fever and pain in the limbs .< so we have 1374 samples that experience these unexplained symptoms got to make one wonder.. Edited by chargingbear - April 24 2006 at 12:18am |
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>They collected blood samples from 1,437 people of which 63 tested positive:<
so what did the test results show of the other 1,374 samples that were sick? |
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Province of Karnataka.
Southern part of India. Edited by fluprepper - April 23 2006 at 3:35pm |
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Karnataka - Bangalore Nagesh Prabhu
BANGALORE: Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is widely prevalent in the State, and over 78,000 people in 61 taluks have been infected. The disease, which was so far concentrated in the districts of North Karnataka, has now spread to Bangalore Rural, Bangalore Urban, Tumkur and Kolar districts. As many as 78,175 people had been infected with the disease in 101 taluk of 15 districts till Wednesday. Symptoms include high fever and pain in the limbs. The disease is widespread in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. The highest number of people infected is in Gulbarga district (31,304) followed by Raichur (14,614), Tumkur (10,818), Bidar (9,784), Chitradurga (3867), Bellary (3358), Bangalore Rural (476), Kolar (206) and Bangalore Urban (87). Over 600 villages in Gulbarga district and 360 villages in Bidar district have been affected, Basavaraju, Commissioner, Health and Family Welfare Services, told The Hindu on Thursday. Senior scientists from the National Institute of Virology, Pune, visited some of the affected areas. They collected blood samples from 1,437 people of which 63 tested positive: 43 in Bidar, four in Bagalkot, nine in Raichur and seven in Gulbarga. However, no one has died of the disease so far. The Department of Health and Family Welfare has taken steps on a war footing to control the disease. Officials have undertaken both indoor and outdoor fogging in the affected villages as part of the preventive measures. But there is a shortage of fogging and spraying equipment. The Government has decided to buy equipment from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Doctors have been sent to Gulbarga, Bellary, Bidar, Raichur, Bijapur and Tumkur where a large number of people have been infected. There is no vaccine or treatment for the viral infection, which is self-limiting. So prevention is the best measure, he said. Pots, containers and drums used for storing water should be covered properly and overhead tanks cleaned regularly to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes, he added. Edited by fluprepper - April 23 2006 at 3:30pm |
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