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Daltonganj, July 27: A team of the health officials of the Sadar hospital Garhwa led by the district epidemiologist Dr Santosh Kumar Mishra on Wednesday did the sampling of the 7-year-old girl having ‘vesico bullous.’
“Our team has collected fluid of the lesions, samples of blood, serum, oropharyngeal, nasal pharyngeal, test for skin scraping etc. Barring the samples of the serum, all others collected would be sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune. The serum will be sent to the RIMS Ranchi for detection of smallpox etc,” said Dr Mishra.
“We could not collect the sample of her urine as the girl got irritated when her mother asked her to go to the toilet. We understand the psychology of the girl who is in distress. We have asked her mother not to press her anymore,” he added.
The team of Dr Santosh Kumar Mishra is monitoring the case with all care and caution. The way the doctor and his team are working on this girl has boosted the morale of the common people and even the doctors that no case whatsoever is untouchable. Dr Mishra said we do need to have precautions which are our demands of the profession.
The girl does not have a fever right now. “It is true she is on paracetamol but nevertheless there can’t be such a subsiding of the fever opined Dr Mishra. Fever persists stubbornly in case of frank monkeypox,” he said.
About lesions, Dr Mishra said the old ones are slightly withering but new lesions are also appearing on her body.
Notably, Vesiculo bullous is a group of dermatological disorders. It is a spectrum of various infectious and inflammatory diseases. Bullous is a fluid-filled blister and it occurs in the thighs and even in the armpits and abdomen etc.
The said girl has it on the left leg which had vesicles first. Then it was followed by 4 or 5 more vesicles. The base of the vesicles is erythematous which means it is widening and spreading.
“We would have been far relieved had right at the outset this case ought to have been presented as a suspected case in a section of media instead of one of the monkeypox cases detected in Garhwa,” Dr Mishra said.
Dr Mishra reiterated that he still has his opinion and observation that this case needs more time to be classified as ‘one a section of media is so describing it’ as for him the case is wide open to be a suspected case of monkeypox.
Commoners are advised not to be in any panic. “Our health team will do all to mitigate the sufferings of the common people,” the doctor asserted. Sources said all other members of the family of this girl are in the good health.
