Reply to 'Encephalitis outbreak finds Indian officials unprepared'
Reply to 'Encephalitis outbreak finds Indian officials unprepared'
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回复“脑炎爆发发现印度官员毫无准备”
DOI：
10.1038/nm0306-269b
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
A. Mathur
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作者：
S. Saxena;M. Singh;A. K. Pathak;A. Mathur
媒体报道将疫情主要归因于日本脑炎，但这是误导性的。根据世界卫生组织的数据，在报告的1,116例病例中，只有37%的病例检测出导致日本脑炎的病毒呈阳性。我们还发现了类似的趋势（SKS等人，未公布的数据）。2005年，脑炎袭击了6 097人，其中大多数是儿童，夺去了1 398人的生命，成为印度最致命的疾病爆发之一。真正的发病率可能要高得多，因为很大一部分病人没有得到医疗照顾，即使是那些得到医疗照顾的人，诊断也很困难。由于引起日本脑炎的病毒被广泛认识，专家们有一种倾向
Media reports have attributed the outbreak primarily to Japanese encephalitis, but that is misleading. According to the World Health Organization, only 37% of the reported 1,116 cases tested positive for the virus that causes Japanese encephalitis2. We also found a similar trend (SKS et al., unpublished data). Most of those cases therefore remain undiagnosed.In 2005, encephalitis struck 6,097 individuals, mostly children, and claimed 1,398 lives, making it one of the deadliest outbreaks of the disease in India. The true incidence is likely to be much higher because a large proportion of sick individuals did not receive medical attention and even for those who did, diagnosis was difficult. Because the virus that causes Japanese encephalitis is widely recognized, experts have a tendency