PUNE: Two more patients died of GBS in Maharashtra Friday, taking the toll in the outbreak to four as the size of the Pune-Pimpri Chinchwad cluster grew by 10 overnight to touch 140 in three weeks.
The casualties – a 60-year-old Pune resident already battling a rare neurological condition and a 36-year-old taxi driver from Pimpri Chinchwad – coincided with Telangana reporting a GBS case.The patient, a 25-year-old woman in Siddipet district, was admitted to KIMS Hospital in Secunderabad in critical condition and put on ventilator support, officials in Hyderabad said.
Two suspected GBS deaths in Kolkata are still to be officially confirmed.
In another worrying development, 15 samples collected from private tankers that supply water to neighbourhoods reporting GBS cases were found to have high levels of coliform and E. coli contamination, said a Pune Municipal Corporation report.
(Inputs from Hyderabad)
