Two suspected Nipah cases reported in Mangaluru
Mangaluru, May 22: Nipah virus that has created havoc in Kerala looks like slowly crossing the border. As per the information given by Dakshina Kannada district health officer Dr. Ramakrishna Rao, two suspected cases of Nipah virus have been diagnosed in Mangaluru.
He said that while the one patient is from Kerala another one is a local person. They are being treated in a private hospital in Mangaluru.
Rao said that the two patients have been diagnosed with the symptoms, but it is not clear whether they are effected by Nipah virus. Their blood samples have been sent to Manipal KMC hospital lab for test.
They are being treated according to the symptoms, Rao informed.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
