Chikungunya enters Kolkata and other areas of WB

Aug 08: Chikungunya has entered Kolkata for last month and 26 out of 31 blood samples have been found positive of the disease.

Three cases have been reported from North Kolkata and 23 cases from Habra in North 24- Parganas.

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Around 500 people showed the symptoms of the viral disease and an outbreak of the disease has been confirmed in Habra.

The spread is being attributed to the migration of people from the affected place.

The diseases has not taken furious form in Kolkata but in North 24 pargana district hundreds of people are complaining of high fever, rashes on the body and joint-pain. State health department has become alert and sent information to all the hospitals about the outbreak of Chikungunya in Kolkata and North 24-parganas and dispatched medical teams to the affected area.

Preventive measures are being taken and a campaign is being started to prevent the disease from taking alarming proportions and turn into epidemic.

Health department has organized health camps in the areas where the news of spread is coming. Extra health centres are also being established to put a check on the disease. Last year around 20 villages have been in the fold of the disease.

Main symptoms of the disease are high fever, pain in joints of the body such as knee ankle including shoulders. Like malaria it spreads by the mosquito bite. There is no specific drug for the disease; malaria treatment is given to the patient which provides some relief.

People blamed the government of its negligent attitude towards the disease. Some Red-Cross teams have become active after the news of an outbreak of the disease was in air and initiated preventive measures as sprinkling of insecticide on the water accumulated in the ponds and ditches etc.