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Three die of viral fever

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM JUNE 20. Viral fevers claimed three lives, including that of a girl, at the Medical College Hospital here on Friday.

An MCH official said that two youth from Nedumangad had been hospitalised in a critical state with high fever.

One, who was 22 years old, died within hardly 10 minutes of being admitted to the hospital, while the other, who was 18 years old, succumbed after battling for life for three hours in the ICU.

The third patient, a 19-year-old girl from Sreevarahom area in the city, died while under emergency care in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU).

She had arrived with tell-tale signs of an end-stage Dengue attack.

Clinicians, however, were reluctant to classify the infective cause of the deaths as serological confirmation could not be obtained in any of the cases.

Doctors said the two youth from Nedumangad appeared to have suffered from severe broncho-pneumonia and had difficulty in breathing.

Meanwhile, according to official data, there have been 390 sero-positive cases of Dengue in the State so far.

The newest 11 cases have been reported from Kozhikode (4), Palakkad (2), Alappuzha (2), Thrissur (1) and Malappuram (2).

The patients had tested positive in the IGM Elisa diagnosis for Dengue virus.

According to an official count, there have been three Dengue-related deaths in the latest wave of viral infection.

Meanwhile, the Health Department and civic bodies are focusing on measures to check vector-borne diseases from assuming epidemic proportions in the community.

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