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Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

...fter the monsoon. Dengue fever is a benign acute febrile syndrome occurring in tropical regions, // which is the most important mosquito (Aedes aegypti), transmitted viral disease. The virus causes Dengue shock syndrome in 20-30% of infected cases. There are four types (known as "serotypes") of dengue. I...

Dengue Epidemic in West Bengal: Over 1000 New Cases and 15 dead

...last week in India. Dengue fever is a benign acute febrile syndrome occurring in tropical regions, which is the most important mosquito (Aedes aegypti), transmitted viral disease. The virus causes Dengue shock syndrome in 20-30% of infected cases. There are four types (known as...

Meningitis is rocking the capital again

... septicaemia may occur with a rapid onset of acute febrile illness with an increased heart rate and rapid progression to multiple organ failure. Meningococcal septicaemia is less common than meningococcal meningitis but is more serious. The commonest signs include fever, rashes appearing as small areas of bl...

Combined Anti-Fever Drug Therapy Proves Unsafe for Childhood Fever

...nts and clinicians to do something when faced with febrile children, it seems churlish to conclude that combined treatment should be withheld from all children, say the authors. But parents should be advised to use the minimum treatment necessary, they conclude. Source: Newswie...

Dengue Cases on the Rise in Rajasthan

...Infants and young children may have a non-specific febrile illness with rash. The illness commonly begins with a sudden rise in temperature accompanied by facial flush. Source-IANS...

The GreeneChip- First Tool to Provide Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

...t days of infection, Marburg virus causes an acute febrile illness that frequently progresses to liver failure, delirium, shock, and hemorrhage. From October 2004 through July 2005, a Marburg outbreak in Angola resulted in 252 cases of hemorrhagic fever, with 90% of the cases fatal. Although most of the case...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

...eloped several other compounds, which defeated the febrile disease in rodents after three oral doses. These peroxide compounds, containing a crucial oxygen-oxygen unit, promise not only to be more effective than today's best malaria remedies, but also potentially safer and more efficient, said research te...

Researchers Identified Genes Linked With Fever-related Seizures

...study. // “Identifying the genes responsible for febrile seizures could improve the understanding, treatmen.... Of the 51 people in the family, 13 had childhood febrile seizures. The febrile seizures stopped by the age of seven for all 13 children. However, six of the ...

Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Underused in Zambia

... body of evidence that a substantial proportion of febrile patients do not have malaria, especially in low to moderate transmission zones, emphasizes the need to educate health center staff on the rational use of artemisinin-based combination therapy, which will require strengthening the availability of mala...

Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...o identify children who may be more susceptible to febrile seizures after MMR, Stanley says. If we can find ways to identify people at risk and medicate them to reduce the possibility of fever, we might be able to reduce the incidence of seizures....

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

... was taken to a Florida hospital, where she was in febrile and in septic shock, on February 20. She was given antibiotics but died on March 1, the CDC said in its "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report." Cultures of cerebrospinal fluid and blood samples taken from the infant found a type of salmonella iden...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...by Dr John Derrick, who described an outbreak of a febrile illness that occurred among abattoir workers in 1935. Q fever has an incubation period of one to four weeks in other words, it can take up to four weeks between exposure and the first symptoms. Usually it starts with a sudden high fever with muscle ...

White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications

...d the fever and low white blood cell levels called febrile neutropenia, compared to only 22 percent of the pa...tify patients who are at higher risk of developing febrile neutropenia, and future studies will be aimed at doing just that." White blood cell boosters can ha...