INDIAN OFFICIAL AT DELHI GAMES GETS DENGUE FEVER
Last Updated: Sunday, October 3, 2010 | 12:12 PM ET
The Associated Press
An Indian worker sprays pesticide to kill mosquitoes outside the Commonwealth Games village, where water collected because of heavy rain in Delhi on Sept. 8. (Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images)An official with India's lawn bowls squad has contracted dengue fever, the first person affiliated with the Commonwealth Games in Delhi to contract the mosquito-borne disease.
Dr. Rajiv Saigol of the GB Pant hospital in New Delhi confirmed hours before the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony Sunday that team official Ruptu Gogoi had the virus but said his condition was stable.
Gogoi was staying in the athletes village when he was taken to hospital on Saturday.
"He is eating well," Saigol told The Associated. "He is sleeping well. He is talking well. He has some fever, which is quite natural because he has had the problem for four to five days. I am not 100 per cent sure, but maybe he is discharged by tomorrow evening."
It was not immediately clear if Gogoi contracted the disease at the village or before moving in.
About 3,500 cases of dengue fever have been reported in New Delhi this year, and seven of the afflicted have died, the Press Trust of India reported.
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