Pune: Health officials have begun screening and testing of transporter, traders and migrant workers who come from other countries to the village of Belsar in the district of the first Zika Virus case in Maharashtra and connected to Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Harayana and Madhya Pradesh trading horticulture.
Team Expert Three Members of the Ministry of Health Union consists of Pranil Kambu, Public Health Specialist, Airport Health Organization, Pune, Himmat Singh, Scientists, National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Delhi, and Shilpi Nain, Professor, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi Arriving at Pune on Wednesday.
It has begun to help the state and district officials to identify the source of possible Zika virus infection.
“Source of infections that might be a BELSA transportation link with other countries, including Kerala where Zika’s outbreak has been going on since the beginning of last month (July).
But this is just a suspicion.
We are working on this link to identify the possibility of a source of infection.
Ministry team Health Uni also began to help us from Wednesday, “said Surve State Survey officers.
A 50-year-old woman from this village was tested positive for Zika-Chikungunya co-infection on July 30.
Dhiraj Gabatap, Deputy Sarpanch from the village of Belsar, said, “Traders loaded trucks with tomatoes, Apple faded and About Belsar and transport them to countries such as Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.” He said, “We sent 152 samples.
Blood people, including those who visit the village to trade.
Forbid the woman, there are no other cases of the Zika virus detected so far, “he said.
NIV has detected Chikungunya’s infection in the maximum sample so far.
“This is a mixed outbreak of Chikungunya, Dengue and Zika but with the dominance of the Chikungunya virus,” said Awat.
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