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Three succumb to dengue in Uttar Pradesh; 63 cases reported so far

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LUCKNOW: Dengue has spread its tentacles in Uttar Pradesh with 63 confirmed cases of the disease reported till Wednesday. According to official estimates, three persons have succumbed to the disease with two deaths in Lucknow and one in Mathura. Unofficial reports place the death toll at five.

However, what has created an alarming situation is that the maximum number of cases has been reported from districts other than those in the National Capital Region (NCR). The State capital tops the list with 22 dengue patients admitted to the different Government hospitals and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. The presence of dengue in the blood samples of the patients admitted to Lucknow hospitals has been confirmed by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. The industrial metropolis of Kanpur follows with 10 cases reported till Wednesday.

That the dreaded disease had spread to the eastern districts of the State was confirmed by five full-blown dengue cases in Varanasi. Reports indicate that the disease may have assumed an epidemic form in eastern U.P. as several cases, particularly in the rural areas, may have gone unreported. The districts of eastern U.P., particularly those in Gorakhpur division, were already ravaged by Japanese and Viral Encephalitis where the total death count due to the twin diseases stood at 252.

The Director of Communicable Diseases, O. P. Pathak, told The Hindu that precautionary measures had already been taken.

Alert sounded

PTI adds from Dehra Dun

The Uttaranchal Government on Wednesday sounded an alert after six suspected dengue patients were hospitalised. These patients at Haldwani base hospital complained of high fever and aches in joints. Doctors had collected blood samples from them which would be sent for tests to NICD in Delhi

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