Disease kills 160 in two weeks

The_Minister

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=9c992524-8c22-4c60-8dea-c595ff5d1cd7

Mystery virus kills 160Rural Kanpur is fighting its most frightening scourge — a mystery disease that has left a long line of bodies in its trail and doesn’t seem anywhere finished.

What started from one village two weeks ago has now spread to 350 and has so far claimed 160 lives. Thousands more are bed-ridden. On an average, 15 to 20 people have been dying every day; Saturday saw the highest toll in a day: 24.

The district’s health department is somewhat confused about the nature of the disease that has struck. At the beginning, the diagnosis was viral fever. Then doctors concluded that it was falciparum malaria. But after two weeks, they have ruled out both but still don’t have an exact answer.

“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi,” said Dr RC Agarwal, the district’s new chief medical officer.

Specialists from the Infectious Disease and Surveillance Programme, New Delhi, have collected the blood samples of a few patients. The team will make its findings known in a few days.

But the fear of the unknown has resulted in a mass exodus of villagers. Pulandar and Dhar villages under Malasa block are
the worst affected. About 1,000 people in these two villages alone are battling the disease. Dhar has taken the maximum number of casualties. The village has lost about 30 people but only one doctor has visited it so far. That was 15 days ago.

Kuldeep Singh and Ram Avtaar of Dhar break down screaming: “A lot of people can still be saved; we need doctors.” Rajesh (38) of Pulandar village says: “Everyone here is waiting for doctors to come and examine people; but they aren’t coming and we are counting our dead.” On Sunday morning, the mystery fever claimed Tilak Singh (35) and his nephew Vikas Singh (11).

Dhar still remains a perfect picture of neglect and apathy. Heaps of garbage continue to be littered all over. Houses are surrounded by stinking filth and roads are waterlogged — perfect breeding grounds for diseases like malaria. The village’s secondary school has been shut down for an indefinite period. Children would wade through knee-deep water to reach the school.

Santosh Prajapati is struggling to cope with looking after eight family members who have been afflicted by the disease. He has hired a tractor to shift them to a hospital in Kanpur city. “I have borrowed money from my relatives… if they remain here they will die,” he says.

Thats a fairly lethal disease. I'm surprised that we haven't heard about this over here.

Fanny Cradock

Blaaaaaarg! Begin panicking.

I would say they are dying more of the reason that they are kept in sh1t conditions with no medical care moreso than the virus itself.

Dave!

"Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?"

"Yes I would Kent."

JimiTime

Yeah, but why is it only happening now, if they have been living in these conditions a long time.

R0ot

I for one welcome our disease carrying overlords. :pac:

longshanks

give it a couple of days and these so called corpses will be back up, wandering around, and looking to eat brains. hindu zombies. save us ving rhames

FunkZ

R0ot wrote: »

I for one welcome our disease carrying overlords. :pac:

When I poster starts a post with 'I for one welcome...' in the first line I get a nervous twitch, it doesn't go away, I then proceed to write their names on my list of posters that say this.

I'm going to come to a Beers someday and capture you all and keep yis in cages, all of yis. Yis will never say it again. Never, ever.

/nervous crazy twitch

AlmightyCushion

FunkZ wrote: »

When I poster starts a post with 'I for one welcome...' in the first line I get a nervous twitch, it doesn't go away, I then proceed to write their names on my list of posters that say this.

I'm going to come to a Beers someday and capture you all and keep yis in cages, all of yis. Yis will never say it again. Never, ever.

/nervous crazy twitch

I for one welcome our twitching overlord.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I for one welcome our welcoming overlord.

Trouble2008

Very sad story. Why are such things not broadasted?

FunkZ

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I for one welcome our twitching overlord.

|-*SxyDubGrrl93*-| wrote: »

I for one welcome our welcoming overlord.

Sex me up greasyyy! Aye aye. I'm gonna have to rip the two you new japs eyes!

Mahatma coat

Trouble2008 wrote: »

Very sad story. Why are such things not broadasted?

beacause the infected in this situation are from the wrong Demographic/Continent/Race for the Viewing public (us) to care about

pickarooney

Some whitey will eventually die from it and it will become A Story.

Silenceisbliss

i like meglomanic diseases, theyre fair cool!

I saw on some documentary, or read it somewhere (cant remember); that if the ebola virus ever got onto an airplane, 90% of the worlds population would be dead within 4 weeks. EBOLA ROCKS!:D

on a side note, this new disease is just a pussy in comparison....unless its a new mutation of ebola....then it cool again...:)

thelordofcheese

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

I saw on some documentary, or read it somewhere (cant remember); that if the ebola virus ever got onto an airplane, 90% of the worlds population would be dead within 4 weeks. EBOLA ROCKS!:D

i can see it now
"Virii on a plane" staring Samuel L Jackson.

"I'm sick of these muthafuckin' diseases on my muthafuckin' plane!"

Wazdakka

OMG It's...
Superaids....

/Runs away to hide from the inevitable fvcking overhype the tabloids will put on this

djpbarry

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

I saw on some documentary, or read it somewhere (cant remember); that if the ebola virus ever got onto an airplane, 90% of the worlds population would be dead within 4 weeks.

That sounds like something from a Tom Clancy novel.

I hate to end a person’s love affair with a sub-microscopic infectious agent, but Ebola is actually pretty easy to contain. Due to its difficulty in spreading by airborne transmission (despite what was depicted in ‘Outbreak’) and its short incubation time, Ebola is unlikely to ever develop into a pandemic.

Silenceisbliss

but thats the beauty of where the plane comes in! so many people in such a close proximity, everyone in the plane is almost garenteed to be in contact!. unaware, the plane lands and the people get off the plane and carry on with their business at the airport, further infecting multitudes more people before the original hosts themselves start showing severe symptoms. the virus then spreads on many more flights to many more countries in a short period of time, soon the entire airport is infected, buses, cars, planes, etc. leaving the airport are all carriers. this carries on to lots more airports before the virus is identified and quarentined. by the time it is quarentined, its too late. there are hundreds of infected areas. ever growing.

lets hope none of those terrorists go getting any ideas.....

Honey-ec

I'll file that one with SARS and Avian Flu in my "Things to Panic about" folder...

Tricity Bendix

Get Dr. House to sort it out.

djpbarry

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

but thats the beauty of where the plane comes in! so many people in such a close proximity, everyone in the plane is almost garenteed to be in contact!. unaware, the plane lands and the people get off the plane and carry on with their business at the airport, further infecting multitudes more people before the original hosts themselves start showing severe symptoms.

No, sorry - it's just not that contagious. Infected bodily fluids are the main transmission medium.

Silenceisbliss

okay fine, maaaaybe not. but when people die from ebola, they do so in a big bloody and violant struggle. blood splattering everywhere on to people. maybe this would in fact be cause for quarentine. maybe it was a weaponised or airborn strain that would do the damage. but i do recall it just being the normal strain wiping out a theoretical 90% of us...

should it need some help, i would happily run down to the airport and spray bountiful amounts of vaporiyed pepper to make everyone sneeze all over eachother.

if that fails, ill be the prick running around with a syring jabbing at random bystanders.... MWAHAHAHAHHA(need evil smiley)

ScumLord

We need to start rounding up monkeys and primates immediately as their undoubtedly the cause of this new disease.

Silenceisbliss

ScumLord wrote: »

We need to start rounding up monkeys and primates immediately as their undoubtedly the cause of this new disease.

that would be half of boards.ie then....

Steve_o

I blame Bigfoot tbh... This all started when he "showed up"

Earthhorse

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

I saw on some documentary, or read it somewhere (cant remember); that if the ebola virus ever got onto an airplane, 90% of the worlds population would be dead within 4 weeks.

How would it buy a ticket?

b.ie curious wrote: »

Get Dr. House to sort it out.

It's NOT Lupus!

chin_grin

Quick catch the monkey that started it all and get Dustin Hoffman here STAT!

Naos

FunkZ wrote: »

When I poster starts a post with 'I for one welcome...' in the first line I get a nervous twitch, it doesn't go away, I then proceed to write their names on my list of posters that say this.

I'm going to come to a Beers someday and capture you all and keep yis in cages, all of yis. Yis will never say it again. Never, ever.

/nervous crazy twitch

R0ot wrote: »

I for one welcome our disease carrying overlords. :pac:

I agree 100% FunkZ. It's right up there with 'Your Ma' responses. So dragged out it's just plain annoying.

OP: Terrible news altogether and what not.

Kintarō Hattori

ScumLord wrote: »

We need to start rounding up monkeys and primates immediately as their undoubtedly the cause of this new disease.

Have you no consideration for Monkeyfudge's feelings? He'll be a broken monkey.

CreepingDeath

Ah disease, natures spring cleaner.

The US economy is that bad that they released this disease so they could buy Indians carbon credits on the cheap.

ScumLord

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

that would be half of boards.ie then....

2 birds with one stone.

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Have you no consideration for Monkeyfudge's feelings? He'll be a broken monkey.

Good, monkeys are evil and don't have feelings anyway. I've nothing against chimps and bonobo monkeys though, their fine upstanding primates of the community.

thelordofcheese

Earthhorse wrote: »

It's NOT Lupus!

It's NEVER lupus.

But lets test for it anyway....

Tricity Bendix

Earthhorse wrote: »

It's NOT Lupus!

But the LP was clean, we've run tox-screens for everything we can think of, there is no sign of any cancers, and there is only 7 minutes left in the show, which gives us only 2 minutes to find the diease and treat it, allowing for four minutes of House berating the patient and their partner/parent/dog/rabbi and one minute playing paino and popping pills.

Earthhorse

thelordofcheese wrote: »

It's NEVER lupus.

But lets test for it anyway....

b.ie curious wrote: »

But the LP was clean, we've run tox-screens for everything we can think of, there is no sign of any cancers, and there is only 7 minutes left in the show, which gives us only 2 minutes to find the diease and treat it, allowing for four minutes of House berating the patient and their partner/parent/dog/rabbi and one minute playing paino and popping pills.

Did Chase run the tests?

Because if so...

*makes dodgy hand gesture*

thelordofcheese

Earthhorse wrote: »

Did Chase run the tests?

Because if so...

*makes dodgy hand gesture*

Did anyone check to see if Cameron bonded with the patient at all? Because if she did....

*makes slitting throat gesture*

Earthhorse

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Did anyone check to see if Cameron bonded with the patient at all? Because if she did....

*makes slitting throat gesture*

It doesn't matter at this stage. Let's stop treatment.

antodeco

BBC wrote:

"Houses are surrounded by stinking filth and roads are waterlogged — perfect breeding grounds for diseases like malaria."

Finglas is fooked then.

thelordofcheese

Earthhorse wrote: »

It doesn't matter at this stage. Let's stop treatment.

Ok then, i'm off to get a new perscription for vicodin.
And then to steal wilsons lunch.

Earthhorse

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Ok then, i'm off to get a new perscription for vicodin.
And then to steal wilsons lunch.

Wait, if you're House, who am I?

*checks butt*

Cuddy? Alright!

javaboy

I don't watch House and am struggling to follow your in jokes. Can you please let me know which characters from said TV programme correspond to the following medical show people:

Dr. Quincy (stubborn, intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, rebellious)
Sam (Quincy's lab assistant. Hardworking but doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.)
Dr. Doug Ross (ruggedly handsome one dimensional doctor)
Dr. Carrie Weaver (permanently on one crutch, hospital adminstration type)
Becker (uncaring doctor with mild psychological problems, dates chicks who are much younger than he looks)
Becker's receptionist (Big cans, ditsy)
Dr. Perry Cox (egotistical doctor, plays awful roles in films lately)

Thanks that would really help me get a feel for what the hell you're on about.

Earthhorse

javaboy wrote: »

Dr. Quincy (stubborn, intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, rebellious)
Dr. Doug Ross (ruggedly handsome one dimensional doctor)
Dr. Carrie Weaver (permanently on one crutch, hospital adminstration type)
Becker (uncaring doctor with mild psychological problems, dates chicks who are much younger than he looks)
Dr. Perry Cox (egotistical doctor, plays awful roles in films lately)

Dr. House

javaboy wrote: »

Dr. Quincy (stubborn, intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, rebellious)
Sam (Quincy's lab assistant. Hardworking but doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.)
Dr. Doug Ross (ruggedly handsome one dimensional doctor)

Dr. Chase

javaboy wrote: »

Dr. Quincy (stubborn, intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, rebellious)
Sam (Quincy's lab assistant. Hardworking but doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.)
Dr. Doug Ross (ruggedly handsome one dimensional doctor)

Dr. Cameron

javaboy wrote: »

Dr. Quincy (stubborn, intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, rebellious)
Dr. Carrie Weaver (permanently on one crutch, hospital adminstration type)

Dr. Cuddy

javaboy wrote: »

I don't watch House

Watch House.

thelordofcheese

Earthhorse wrote: »

Watch House.

Do eeeeeeeet!

Call Me Jimmy

Mahatma coat wrote: »

beacause the infected in this situation are from the wrong Demographic/Continent/Race for the Viewing public (us) to care about

Like you'd give a **** even if it was reported... really what would this 'caring' involve? A '****ing hell' at best and then ye'd forget about it.

javaboy

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Like you'd give a **** even if it was reported... really what would this 'caring' involve? A '****ing hell' at best and then ye'd forget about it.

Well for starters, I'd break out the disinfectant for the welcome mat like when that Eye and Ear thing happened on the Cooley peninsula.

Carsinian Thau

javaboy wrote: »

Becker (uncaring doctor with mild psychological problems, dates chicks who are much younger than he looks)

Becker isn't uncaring.
He just finds it difficult to deal with annoying people.

That is all.

javaboy

Earthhorse wrote: »

Dr. House
Dr. Chase
Dr. Cameron
Dr. Cuddy

Watch House.

So wait. Nobody has big cans on this House you speak of? :mad:

Earthhorse

javaboy wrote: »

So wait. Nobody has big cans on this House you speak of?

No, but Dr. Cameron and Dr. Cuddy both have lovely bottoms.

And I understand there is a new girl in the 4th series who is also lovely.

Sherifu

Super AIDS is upon us