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BANGALORE (Saturday) : Although the Public Health Institute (PHI) has officially declared that there is an outbreak of chikungunya in the city, the disease is waning, with only 48 new cases reported in the past three days.

“Further, the outbreak is confined to Srirampuram and Bhashyamnagar,” official sources told this website’s newspaper.

While more blood samples were sent for testing on Thursday, seven of the 21 samples sent earlier are said to be positive. Around 198 chikungunya cases have been reported in the city so far.

A public awareness campaign has been launched to check the disease, with household surveys, fumigation and cleaning surroundings.

KC General Hospital, which has created a separate ward for chikungunya cases, treated 23 cases as out-patients on Thursday. Eleven of these were female patients.

“Nine others have been admitted,” said Dr Vishwaradhya, Health Superintendent of the Hospital.

“The symptoms of chikungunya are high fever, sometimes accompanied by shivering, headache, painful joints and muscular pain,” Dr Prasanna said.

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