Kerala Health department “revises” figures on amoebic meningoencephalitis

The allegations of the number of real people infected by amoeba meningoencephalitis and the official figures on the State Health Department website in Kerala were “reviewed”.

Until September 10, the data published within the scope of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program on the website of the department, 42 suspects and 18 -approved cases this year, he said. The number of confirmed deaths was only two and suspicious deaths were 14. In September, there were 11 suspects, five suspects deaths and only two approved cases and one approved death. CT, “reported cases and deaths are based on the preliminary report and the laboratory tests and death inspections are obliged to change a note. In addition, two cases in Thiruvananthapuram were “cross -informed to Tamil Nadu” and a case in Kannur was “reported to Karraz Karnataka”. This has been reported to have died only in Kozhikode only five people due to infection in less than a month since August 14th.

The lack of clarity about the number of affected people and deaths led to the claim that the department tries to hide the data to cover the “inadequacy önemli in involving rare and deadly brain infection. However, the data published by the department on September 11 did not mention suspicious cases or deaths. He said there were 64 approved cases and 17 deaths this year. There were 17 approved cases and seven deaths in September. The following note said that 64 a total of 64 cases are microscopically ve and “four cases are from other states and 20 cases are pcr-teyit”. The data released on September 12, this year, a total of 66 approved cases and 17 deaths, he said. September figures were 19 and seven, respectively.

According to the treatment protocol of the department, headache of infection, fever, neck, delirium, etc. Any person exhibiting symptoms is subjected to a microscopic analysis of the brain spinal cord fluid (surrounding the brain and spinal cord). If a free -living amoeba is found, amobic menenoencephalitis treatment is immediately initiated. The examples are then sent to the State Public Health Laboratory in Thiruvananthapuram for a detailed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to detect pathogenic DNA or RNA as zero in certain types. Official approval only comes from now on. However, resources, at times, say that if the samples are kept at low temperatures for a long time, they are likely to be damaged in transit, and that the test may not give the desired results. This is one of the reasons why some cases are called “suspicious ında in the official brightly.