Summary:
more-inDistrict health administration has issued an alert against chicken pox, with cases being reported regularly from many parts of the district. Chicken pox infection thus shows up more severely in adults and hence preventive vaccination is advised. It was just two weeks ago that the Sree Chitra Tirunal College of Engineering at Pappanamcode had been closed for a fortnight following a cluster of chicken pox cases. While no major outbreaks have been reported, the College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET) was closed for two weeks on Monday, after 19 cases of chicken pox was reported amongst students, mostly hostel mates. Chicken pox being a highly contagious, air-borne disease, it was natural for the infection to spread in hostels, which are often congested and where students are in close contact with each other..