Kanpur: The first patient of the Zika virus in Uttar Pradesh was detected in Kanpur after the Pune Saturday Laboratory confirmed the infection in the 57-year-old command officer here.
Chief Medical Officer, Kanpur, Nepal Singh, said the officers were being treated at 7 air force hospitals in the district with high fever and blood samples sent to the National Virology Institute (NIV), Pune, after his body temperature remained worrying.
High for a week.
At least 200 samples more than those who come into contact with patients and those who have similar symptoms have been sent to Pune Lab and isolated in their homes.
A team of health experts from Delhi has rushed to Kanpur to contain the spread of transmission even because the health department is two medical teams on Sundays.
A team led by additional CMO Dr.
Subodh Prakash went to the location of Pardevanpur Pokharpur in Kanpur, where the clerk was located, and collected a sample of 200 people, including his wife, son and daughter.
His family, however, lives in Pune and Bangalore and is currently present at Kanpur.
The second team examined 7 air force hospitals and directed fogging and sanititis.
District judge, Kanpur, Vishak G, said all the necessary steps were being taken after confirming the first positive Zika patient above.
“The emergency meeting of medical college doctors will be held on Monday and civil staff has been directed to launch embarrassing exercises with mosquito repellent.
The virus does not spread like Covid, it is borne by a vector such as dengue fever,” said DM.
Zika’s first infection was confirmed in Kerala on July 8.
According to the WHO report, Zika Viral RNA was detected through RT-PCR testing at the National Institute of Virology Pune in a blood sample collected from a 24-year-old pregnant woman in Trivandrum.
On July 31, Maharashtra also reported the case of Zika’s first of the village of Belsar in Pune District when a 50-year-old woman was tested positive.
Protection of mosquito bites during the day and evening is the key to preventing the spread of infection.
Mosquito Aedes breed in a small collection of water around homes, schools and workplaces and it is important to eliminate these sites with the right method.