Did chlorination lapses lead to Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) in people? PMC to probe | Pune News – The Times of India

PUNE: Civic health authorities investigating the surge in Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) cases in Pune are now checking if lapses in water chlorination in wells caused the diarrhoea spike in areas that reported GBS. Many patients in the city had bouts of diarrhoea days before experiencing GBS symptoms.The suspect wells include those from where municipal and…

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73 affected in Guillain-Barre Syndrome outbreak in Pune, 14 put on ventilator | India News – The Times of India

PUNE: Alerts from three Pune hospitals to local authorities last Monday about a higher-than-usual occurrence of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare but treatable autoimmune disease, blew up into an unprecedented cluster of 73 cases by Friday – almost trebling in four days from the initial 26 cases that caused alarm. No GBS-induced death has been…

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