67-Year-Old Man In Bavdhan First Patient Of Zika Virus In Pune
Pune, 2nd December 2022: A patient with the Zika virus, which is mainly spread by mosquitoes, has been detected in Pune city. The patient is a 67-year-old male from Bavdhan. Currently, the patient is fully recovered and has no symptoms. Against this background, the Health Department has sped up fever patient surveys in Pune city and the Bavdhan area.
In a private laboratory in Pune, this patient was found to be infected with Zika on November 18. On November 30, the NIV examination confirmed that the patient was positive for Zika. Meanwhile, in November, Jahangir came to the hospital for outpatient consultation for fever, cough, joint pain, and fatigue.
This patient is originally from Nashik, and he came to Pune on November 6. Before that, the health department informed that the patient had gone to Surat.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has taken disease control measures in the Bavdhan area. Houses in the patient’s area were surveyed, but no suspected patient was found. House-to-house surveys and container surveys were done for mosquito breeding in this area. The origin of the Aedes mosquito has not been detected in this area.
Zika is a virus that spreads from one person to another from mosquitoes such as dengue and chikungunya. If said mosquito bites a pregnant woman, it will affect the unborn child. This results in insufficient brain growth. In this, children may bear small head sizes, Guillain Barre syndrome, and neurological disease.
The symptoms of the disease are redness of the eyes, severe headache, fever, joint pain, body ache, headache, vomiting, discomfort, red spots, and others. People who are suffering from this virus need plenty of rest.
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