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Covid-19 pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease — Elephantiasis

updated: May 27 2021, 15:03 ist
Sunita Kashyap used to get free treatment in her local health centre for the swelling in her right leg that has left her in pain and unable to work - the incurable result of a parasitic disease endemic in her native India.
That was before the pandemic hit, overwhelming India s already fragile health system.
For the past year, the 36-year-old mother of three has received only basic painkillers for the debilitating swelling caused by her lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis for the distinctive lower limb swelling it causes.
We are poor people, she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from her village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, one of India s most deprived regions. ....

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Pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease

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MUMBAI and LUCKNOW, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sunita Kashyap used to get free treatment in her local health centre for the swelling in her right leg that has left her in pain and unable to work - the incurable result of a parasitic disease endemic in her native India.
That was before the pandemic hit, overwhelming India’s already fragile health system.
For the past year, the 36-year-old mother of three has received only basic painkillers for the debilitating swelling caused by her lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis for the distinctive lower limb swelling it causes. ....

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Pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease

Pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease
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Pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease

Pandemic hits India's drive to tackle an ancient disease
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Advancing immunization in Bihar

Recent outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis in new districts in Bihar, India underscore the importance of widespread immunization coverage and strong surveillance systems.
PATH’s Dr. Satyabrata Routray gives papers for new vaccine transport vans to Bihar government officials. These vans will strengthen the vaccine supply chain in Bihar in the wake of the COVID-19 vaccination drive. Photo: PATH/Dr. Siddhartha Dutta.
Japanese encephalitis begins like the flu. But this mosquito-borne viral infection of the brain can quickly progress to life-threatening encephalitis, causing paralysis, seizures, inability to speak, and coma.
The case fatality rate from Japanese encephalitis (JE) can be as high as 30 percent, and most deaths are among children. Nearly half of all survivors can have severe, lifelong neurological disability. ....

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