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Conjunctivitis in Mumbai, Dont Be Complacent Say Doctors
October 05, 2007 at 12:13 PM
Indian Health News
They recall the metro has a history of conjunctivitis epidemics, some of which resulted in cross-infection and even left patients paralysed.
Conjunctivitis, also known as pink-eye, is an infection caused by a virus or bacteria which causes redness, watering or discharge from the eye.
Often spread through the touch of an infected person, conjunctivitis is affecting large numbers, from schoolchildren to office-goers. But it is also largely self-limiting, and a person can get relief in a week provided he or she takes the right precautions.
"Not many know that the innocuous-seeming virus could show up along with another family of viruses called Enterovirus 70, which causes paralysis in the adult male," said senior neurologist and a former teacher at J J Hospital Noshir Wadia.
The city had in the 70s experienced an epidemic of conjunctivitis, and some of the affected cases showed paralysis-like symptoms. Even as public health experts say that they are closely watching the widespread presence of the eye infection, old-timers are asking for research into the new strains.
"There is a need for public health agencies to study the strain of virus causing the infection on a war footing," said Dr Wadia. Haffkine director Ranjana Deshmukh, whose team had studied the viral strain that caused an epidemic in the city in 1981, too points out that conjunctivitis is contagious and that research is necessary as the infection causes much discomfort to the public.
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