Pune: Six new confirmed Zika virus cases were reported in PMC limits on Friday, taking the city’s count to date to 94. The district’s tally went up to 108 confirmed cases in total, after PCMC reported a total of five cases and Pune rural areas recorded nine. The six new cases include a pregnant woman (20) from Benkar Vasti, who is 28 weeks into her pregnancy.
Her anomaly scan is normal, read the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) report. The fresh cases also include a 46-year-old woman from Narayan Peth. She reported fever and red rashes.
Another woman (51) from BT Kawade Road also reported similar symptoms. The fourth case is of a Senapati Bapat Road resident (57) with a travel history to Karnataka; he had developed a fever earlier. On Friday, a 14-year-old girl from Kalyaninagar was also diagnosed with the Zika infection and a 56-year-old woman from Karvenagar, who also has diabetes, had to be admitted to the hospital for three days between Aug 12 and 14.
The PMC has to date gotten 769 samples tested for Zika virus, of which 686 were those of pregnant women. We also published the following articles recently Five Zika virus cases detected in Bengaluru Five cases of Zika virus were detected in Bengaluru between August 4 and 15, as stated by Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao. The cases were identified in Jigani, Bengaluru, prompting containment measures.
Rao mentioned that Zika has simple symptoms similar to dengue and should be treated accordingly. City reports 345 dengue, 35 chikungunya cases in Aug Cholera continued to affect various areas of Ahmedabad city, while mosquito-borne diseases saw a rise due to light monsoon rains. From Aug 1 to 17, there were 345 cases of dengue, 110 of malaria, and 22 of cholera.
The city's health department reported over 35,000 cases of viral fever in this period. Karnataka: Chikkaballapur man held for raping 65-year-old woman in hospital A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a 65-year-old woman at Chintamani General Hospital, 80km from Bengaluru. The woman had taken shelter after missing her bus.
Hospital staff initially intervened when the man first attempted to molest her, but he returned an hour later and committed the crime. The staff then caught and handed him to the police..
