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,…
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…
