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2 IAF men, 1 test more positive for Zika on Kanpur

2 IAF men, 1 test more positive for Zika on Kanpur
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Kanpur: Two Indian Air Force personnel (IAF) and civilians from Kanpur were tested positive for the Zika virus on Saturday, raising the virus which was calculated into four in Uttar Pradesh.
On October 23, a 57-year-old IAF Wasan official, who is currently being treated at the Air Force Hospital here, is the first to sign a virus.
Residents of Pardewanpurwa Pokharpur, the sample was previously sent to the National Virology Institute, Pune.
High warning has been heard in Hanger No.
7 & 8 of the IAF Station Maintenance Command, Kanpur, along with neighboring civil bags.
On Saturday, the third sample – two IAF and civilian personnel were tested positive in your KG lab in Lucknow.
While the two IAF personnel were in the age of thirties and residents of Adarshnagar the Chakei region, 41-year-old civilians and came from the Shyamnagar area in the region.
They have been isolated and treated at the Air Force Hospital.
With three chake areas, where the IAF station was placed, in Zika’s handle, Kanpur District Judge Vishak G Iyer and Chief Medical Officer Dr.
Nepal Singh rushed to the Air Force station on Saturday with the Ministry of Health and civil officers to control the dissemination of mosquito diseases .
Health infrastructure has also increased at the Lajpat Rai Hospital to treat Zika patients.
Civil authorities have been directed to do intensive encouragement to stop Aedes mosquito breeding in and around the air transport station.
Speaking with Toi, DM said: “More than 260 samples of IAF personnel and residents of Pardewanpurwa Pokharpur, Adarshnagar and the Shyamnagar Chakei area were sent to KgMu Laboratory.
On Saturday, Lucknow Lab confirmed three more samples as a positive zika.
One of the three of them was found asymptomatic.
“The doctor said the first stable Zika patient and 22 people associated with all had been tested negatively for the virus.
To track the source of the Zika virus and examine the spread, 74 health department teams on Friday gathered a sample of nearly 204 people, including 29 pregnant women and 85 air force personnel from 11,493 household choker.
This exercise is supervised by experts from Delhi and Lucknow.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health has taken blood and urine samples from 175 Indian Air Force personnel and 76 civilians and sent them to the KgMu lab to confirm Zika, Malaria or Dengue, said, Dr.
GK Mishra, an additional director, the welfare of medical and family health , Kanpur.
On October 25, a high-level multidisciplinary team consisting of an Entomology expert, a gynecologist and public health specialist from the Disease Control Program in the National Vector, the National Disease Control Center and RML Hospital, Delhi, sent by the Ministry of Health to Kanpur.

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