Indian Journal of Virology

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 1

P-03. Sero survey of an outbreak of unknown fever in several districts of West Bengal (2007)

  • Author:
  • Bhaswati Bandyopadhyay, Srima Adhikari, Nemai Bhattacharya
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 28 to 28

Department of Virology, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India.

Abstract

A widespread unknown fever broke out in nine districts of West Bengal, from August 2007, that continued up to December 2007. A total of 800 patients were investigated and 321 (40.13%) were found to be reactive for Chikungunya antibodies by IgM capture ELISA and HI test. 66% of the patients were male. Predominant signs & symptoms observed in the sero-positive cases were fever (100%), arthralgia (96%) and diffuse erythematous rash(94%). 3% of the patients had hemorrhagic manifestations. Four suspected deaths occurred.