Chandipura Virus Responsible for Deaths of 17 Children in Gujrat

As of Mon 19 Jul 2004, Scientists of the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, have identified the mysterious virus responsible for a viral fever, which has killed 17 children in over 8 talukas of Vadodara district to be Chandipura virus.
As per communications to the state health authorities, the virus has been identified to be similar to the virus which affected 165 children livingin rural areas in Andhra Pradesh in 2001-02. Confirmed to be a vector-borne disease some time back, [phlebotamine] sandflies have been identified to be the carriers of the virus. These flies are known to breed in dark places, cracks on mud-walls of village huts, barks of trees, cattle and animal sheds, poultry houses and other such places.
[Chandipura virus is a member of the genus _Vesiculovirus_ of the family Rhabdoviridae_. Chandipura virus was isolated first in 1967 from blood samples from 2 patients during investigation of an outbreak of another arbovirus disease in Nagpur. Subsequently a similar virus was isolated in West Africa. More recently it has been associated circumstantially with outbreaks of febrile illness in children in India (see references below). Antibodies to Chandipura virus may be relatively common in endemic areas.
It is not clear whether Chandipura virus was isolated from patients in this or previous suspected outbreaks, or whether the evidence was based entirely on serology.  Further information would be appreciated regarding the basis for the diagnosis.]
      
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In 1998-99, an outbreak of a previously unrecorded viral disease killed more than 100 people and thousands of pigs in Malaysia. Small numbers of other animals in Malaysia, including horses, cats, dogs, fruit bats (flying foxes), and goats were also shown to have been infected with the Nipah virus, During February 2004, the same virus was held responsible for an epidemic in Bangladesh and few experts believe that this new ‘exotic’ virus may be responsible for Siliguri epidemic in India in 2001.
(The Nipah virus was named after one of the villages affected by the outbreak: Sungai Nipah, in the Malaysian State of Negri Sembilan. Dr Chua Kaw Ping, from the University Malaya, made the discovery of the new virus on 18 March 1999.)
             
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