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Child dies following fever

Staff Reporter

Disease surveillance, control activities stepped up at Pappanamcode

Thiruvananthapuram: The district health administration officials have launched a vector study and stepped up disease surveillance and control activities at Pappanamcode following reports about the death of a six-and-a-half-year-old child there on Wednesday following fever.

The child, Swathi, daughter of Radhakrishnan Nair, Estate road, Pappanamcode, had been down with fever since October 7. She was being treated at the out-patient clinic of a private hospital at Killipalam.

On Tuesday, she was admitted to the hospital after the fever suddenly shot up. However, Swathi died on Wednesday morning.

Though it was widely speculated that the child might have died of chikungunya, the serum samples tested negative for chikungunya in the Rapid Card Test done at a major private lab in the city today.

The district health officials who visited Pappanamcode have also reported that the child did not have the classic symptoms of chikungunya. None in the immediate locality or in the household had fever. There was no water logging in the area also.

However, to allay the fears of people, vector studies and health awareness classes would be conducted in the area, they added.

The possibility of the child having suffered from dengue fever or any subsequent complications is yet to be confirmed, the officials said.

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