Surge in ‘dengue-like fever’ affecting children in Bengaluru; check symptoms here
News18, “These fevers mirror classic dengue symptoms, including a significant drop in platelet count, accompanied by high fever but don’t yield a positive result when any dengue test is done. Also, we have observed that these cases have surpassed the actual dengue cases at Athreya Hospitals." Another doctor Dr Supraja Chandrasekar who is the director of paediatric services at DHEE Hospitals in Bengaluru told News18 that hospital has witnessed spike in dengue like cases among children.
Apart from the high-grade fever, she said that “Symptoms such as intense headaches, eye pain and heightened body ache are unusually more prevalent this season," as quoted by News18. Other medical experts also highlighted symptoms like high fever, severe headache, vomiting and itching, as reported by the daily.
Speaking of dengue cases in Karnataka, as of 19 July, the state recorded 4,013 dengue cases, according to the BBMP as reported by India Today while Bengaluru saw 2,065 cases or 51.4 percent of all cases reported in the state. Meanwhile, the Dengue virus could become more virulent due to increasing temperatures, according to a study that could help in predicting and mitigating the severity and virulence of the recurring tropical disease that witnesses an outbreak in the monsoon, as reported by PTI. The Researchers at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) in Kerala found that dengue becomes more severe and hostile in animal models when its virus (DENV) while being grown in mosquito-derived cells is exposed to higher temperatures.
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