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Viral fever claims 193 lives in Kerala state

INDIA: India’s southern coastal Kerala state is reeling from an outbreak of mosquito-borne Chikungunya viral fever infections that have claimed 193 lives, a minister said Monday.

Health minister P.K. Sreemathy told AFP that the inland plantation districts of Pathanamthitta and Kottayam were the worst affected, accounting for 161 of the 193 deaths this year.

“We have organized 2,500 medical camps in the state. This is an unusual situation that needs multiple strategies to defuse the crisis,” she said.

The minister said the situation, which erupted with the arrival of annual monsoon rains in June, was improving, citing a decline in the number of cases reported in recent weeks.

Kerala health experts blamed abysmal efforts to clean up mosquito breeding areas and an ineffective health system for the high number of deaths. “The viral outbreak and Chikungunya infection reveal that public health in the state is in danger and health management of the state is not at all effective,” said Vinod Kumar, a doctor working with a voluntary health group.

Chikungunya — transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito — was first detected in 1955 in Africa and last year caused the deaths of some 200 people on the French Indian ocean island of Reunion.

Thiruvananthapuram, Tuesday, AFP

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