PUNE/CHENNAI: A 10-year-old boy who died at Chennai’s Institute of Child Health on Jan 31 was Tuesday confirmed to be Tamil Nadu’s first Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) victim, taking the number of casualties caused by the rare but treatable infection since last month to seven.Pune, which accounts for five of the GBS mortalities across the country,…
PUNE/GUWAHATI: Maharashtra reported its fifth death linked to Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and Assam its first on Saturday as a continued uptick in hospitalisations across Pune took the metropolitan region’s caseload to 149, up by nine overnight.A 60-year-old man from Nanded Gaon treated at Pune’s Sassoon Hospital since Jan 16 died around 12.30am, hours before a…
MUMBAI: As 18 of 140 patients with the debilitating neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), are on ventilator support in Pune, there is some cold comfort in knowing this isn’t the worst outbreak in the world – yet. It could, however, be considered one of the largest GBS outbreaks as medical literature classified 30 to 50…
PUNE: The search for what triggered Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) outbreak in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad yielded a loose end Thursday after water samples tested for Campylobacter jejuni, found in stool samples of at least five patients, were found free of the bacterium.As National Institute of Virology (NIV) contemplated other ways to unravel the mystery, the caseload…
PUNE: A 41-year-old chartered accountant working in Pune was identified Monday as the first casualty of the Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) outbreak concentrated in the city, a day after the Maharashtra health department reported that a patient who died in a Solapur hospital on Jan 25 was “suspected” to have contracted the rare but treatable infection.“It’s…
JAMMU: Bilal Ahmed Kuchay — a 27-year-old undertrial prisoner involved in the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed on Feb 14, 2019 — was shifted from Kishtwar District Jail to Jammu GMCH’s ICU early Tuesday after he developed health complications. The 27-year-old suffers from Guillain-Barré syndrome, a condition wherein the body’s…
