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Two persons who tested positive for the Zika virus in the Madhya Pradesh district of Bhopal District, officials said Tuesday, as the number of people suffering from the disease in the state.
The deceased – an 18-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman – were suffering from the virus and other "serious" diseases. Therefore, they can not be said to Zika, they are clarified.
"We have not seen these deaths in the past, but they have been tested for Zika," a senior health ministry official.
The virus has infected 109
On November 5, an 18-year-old man died due to septic shock. He was suffering from dengue and encephalitis with brain herniation, besides being tested positive for the Zika virus, they said.
In the second case, the 23-year-old woman, who also died due to septic shock, was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, besides the virus. She died in the first week of November, the officials said.
People have tested positive for the Zika virus in seven districts of Madhya Pradesh. This includes 44 cases that were reported from Bhopal, 20 from Sehore, 29 from Vidisha, two from Sagar and Hoshangabad, and one from Narsinghpur and Raisen.
The first outbreak of the Zika virus in Ahmedabad in January 2017 and the Madhya Pradesh second in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district in July that year. Both these outbreaks were successfully contained in intensive surveillance and vector management.
During the last outbreak of the virus in the country, the first case surfaced on September 22, when an 85-year-old woman tested positive for the virus in Jaipur . Since then, the number of Zika cases has risen to 153 in Rajasthan.
In Madhya Pradesh, an intensive screening exercise is being undertaken and vector control measures have been intensified. (19659002) The Zika virus, transmitted through the aedes aegypti mosquito, causes fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain.
It is harmful to pregnant women, it is harmful to expect, in a newborn children.
The disease is under surveillance of the Union health ministry no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern under the WHO notification since November 18, 2016.
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