Pune, Jan. 29 -- A woman is suspected to have died of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in Maharashtra on Wednesday, while 16 new cases of the rare nerve disorder were reported in the state, health officials said.
On Sunday, a 40-year-old man from Solapur died of suspected GBS.
"A 56-year-old woman from Pune with co-morbidities is suspected to have succumbed to GBS at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital," a health department official said.
The Health department said in a release, "127 suspected patients of GBS have been found so far, besides one more patient suspected to have succumbed to the disease. Nine of them are from outside Pune district."
Sixteen new GBS cases were reported on Wednesday, it said.
Seventy-two case have been diagnosed as confirmed GBS cases and 20 patients are currently on ventilators, it said.
So far, 121 stool samples have been sent to the city-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), and all of them were tested for 'enteric virus panel'. Twenty-one samples tested positive for Norovirus while five stool samples tested positive for Campylobacter, the release said. GBS is a rare condition that causes sudden numbness and muscle weakness, with symptoms including weakness in the limbs and loose motion.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.