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Kashmir – Outbreak Follow Up

March 24, 2008

Follow up to yesterdays posting on the NIT in Kashmir note the confusion about the statement that it was Smallpox has been cleared up and corrected to Chickenpox.

More cases likely in coming days’

MUDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Mar 23: Day after Greater Kashmir reported the outbreak of chickenpox in the National Institute of Technology here, the health authorities came out with a confirmation.
Doctors said there could be a few more cases in the coming week but there is “nothing to feel panicky because chickenpox is a self-resolving disease.”
“Some students are likely to have contracted the disease from the already infected students and are susceptible to develop the illness,” said Dr Salim Khan, who was part of a team of doctors from Social and Preventive Medicine department of Government Medical College (GMC) that visited the NIT today.
Dr Dildar Ahmad and Dr Khursheed Ahmad were other doctors in the team who assessed the situation in NIT.
Confirming the disease among three non-Kashmiri students the doctors said claimed that there was no threat to other students as the affected students have been isolated and will be non-infective in two to three days. The doctors urged the authorities concerned of the NIT to educate students about various aspects of the disease.
Four students of the Institute were infected by the chickenpox disease. While three outside students (names withheld) have been kept in a separate ward of the Medical Unit in the campus, the Kashmiri student was shifted to home by his family members.
The registrar of the NIT, A R Bhat on Saturday told Greater Kashmir that students were infected with smallpox.
“It (disease) is chickenpox. Small pox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1979 and since then no case has been reported,” Dr Salim said.
The authorities in the NIT told Greater Kashmir that the affected students were provided the “required” medical treatment. A team of doctors from Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science also visited the campus and provided the medical treatment to the ill students,” said Registrar, NIT, AR Bhat.

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