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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Student nurse, two others die of dengue
2011-09-28
[Dawn] At least three more people, including a student nurse, died of dengue fever on Monday while some 43 others, parliamentary sectary for education MPA Chaudhry Mumtaz Ahmad Jajja, among them, were said to be critical.

Reports said Saima Majeed, a fourth-year nursing student, was shifted to Services Hospital a couple of days ago. Saima was later shifted to Sheikh Zayed Hospital late on Sunday after she was declared critical. Ijaz of Sanda, 50, died of Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) at the SZH`s emergency department. The hospital administration has confirmed the two deaths.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
 Muhammad Amjad, died at Jinnah Hospital of DSS complications. Hospital MS Dr Afzal Shaheen confirmed the death at the Medical Unit-III of the health facility.

Sources said that of 43 critically ill patients, 11 are admitted at Services Hospital, five at Lahore General Hospital and two at Mayo Hospital.

Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) Principal Prof Javed Akram said some 25 people, diagnosed as dengue fever patients, were struggling for life at Jinnah Hospital alone. Of them, he said, PML-N MPA Mr Jajja had been kept in intensive care and his health was fast deteriorating.

A health department report said 368 new dengue fever cases were reported all over the province on Monday, including 342 in Lahore alone. The report said the total number of reported dengue cases has reached 10,583 in Punjab, including 9,490 in Lahore.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Fascinating stuff. All praise Rantburg U!
Posted by: SteveS   2011-09-28 22:49  

#4  SteveS: Typically, dengue is "silent" in about 80% of cases, but in the other 20% it could become dengue fever, dengue shock syndrome, or the godawful hemorrhagic form, which acts much like ebola.

the first time a person gets dengue fever, they are just royally messed up for about three weeks, with the oddest symptoms, including every joint in their body hurting, edema, whole body rash, and mental instability.

But then they get better. Yet for unknown reasons, with a second infection, that might also be silent at first, it could turn into the hemorrhagic form, and they are in deep trouble.

The student nurse got the still deadly intermediate form of dengue shock syndrome, which like toxic shock syndrome is from bacterial toxins, but it is caused as a secondary effect, with GI bleeding caused by the dengue virus permitting a bacterial infection to kill the patient.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-09-28 14:42  

#3  inshallah.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-09-28 07:14  

#2  Descriptions of deaths in the 1919 flu pandemic are similar to dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Its my suspicion that a second infection by a different strain of flu was the main cause of deaths in 1919.
Posted by: phil_b   2011-09-28 03:02  

#1  Interesting. I was not aware of dengue fever being fatal, just painful. However, a little googling suggests a more severe version of the disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever, results when the victim is infected with a different type of dengue fever virus.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-09-28 02:25  

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