Tripura: Humans ill after B2B H5N1

Good as the flu-news gatherers usually are, they don't pick up everything. For example, Tripurainfo.com seems to escape them. But here's a report worth reading: After bird flu, fever hits Nadilak.

Altogether 109 cases of fever were reported at Nadilak village of Bishalgarh subdivision, worst affected by the Avian Flu.

Central RRT [New Delhi-based rapid response team] has been assisting the State authorities to continue the containment operations.

House to house surveillance by health workers is continuing. A population of 19482 has been covered in 0-3 Km areas.

Sources added that none of villagers had exposure history to infected poultry.

153 Animal Health workers are under medical supervision and chemoprophylaxis.

In the village of Hatearra under Mohanpur block of West Tripura district has also running the containment operations to control the outbreak. Active house-to-house surveillance is continuing. A population of 24011 has been covered in 0-3 Km areas and 73 cases of fever have been detected in the community and none of them had exposure history to infected poultry.

In the Mohanpur block 155 Animal Health workers are under medical supervision and chemoprophylaxis.

Meanwhile, state government said there is adequate stock of Tamiflu and there is no suspect case of human avian influenza.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this] is a common fallacy, so it's needless to jump to unwarranted conclusions. But I'm glad the local and national authorities are keeping an eye on this outbreak of fever.