epidemiological investigation of a fever outbreak in girls’ hostel, govermental medical college
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normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 fever is commonest reason for hospital attendance. 1 fever outbreaks are mostly due to malaria; some reveal different origin. 2 dengue is endemic in india. 3 fever cases were reported daily from girls’ hostel from 2 nd september. relevant history and investigation of outdoor patient department cases was done for common causes of fever like malaria, typhoid, leptospirosis and dengue. active surveillance was continued for twice maximum incubation period of dengue. preventive measures like health education, elimination of mosquito breeding spots; hospitalisations and isolation of dengue cases were done. twenty one (15%) out of 140 students reported fever (figure 1). age of cases ranged from 17 to 21 years. mean illness duration was 4 ± 1.7 days. nine (43%) subjects gave history of travel to dengue endemic areas within 30 days. tests for dengue by antibody detection technique were positive in 2 (9.5%) participants. both cases were hospitalised with low platelet count. tests for other diseases were negative. the clinical features were fever in all, body ache in 71%, headache in 52%, common cold or cough in 43%, sore throat in 34%, conjunctivitis in 5% and splenomegaly in 5%. mosquito breeding was detected in 3 sites. the epidemic curve was indicative of propagated outbreak. dengue fever is defined as 5 or more non-malaria cases of fever per 1000 populations at a time. 1 tests for other diseases were negative. the population in college premises was more than 1000. hence this outbreak can be called dengue outbreak. seroprevalence in other studies was 39.4%, 4 20% 5 and 21%. 1 less seroprevalence in present study was due to immediate preventive measures. occurrence in monsoons was similar to other studies. 3, 4 the present outbreak was controlled by source reduction, fogging and health education.
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journal of research in medical sciencesجلد ۱۷، شماره ۱، صفحات ۰-۰
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