Also Read: Fever, headache, diarrhea…: Marburg causes COVID-like symptoms, but extremely deadly In West Bengal, people have been struggling to find available hospital beds in paediatric department's general intensive care unit (PICU), reported Anandabazar Patrika while adding that even ventilators are unavailable due to the present crisis.
Despite the rarity of significant sickness, adenoviruses can cause mild to severe illness. Adenovirus infections can cause serious illness in people who already have respiratory or cardiac disease, have compromised immune systems, or both, as per US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Also Read: COVID-19 leaves ‘dramatic’ changes in heart, researchers find 'abnormalities' in survivors While common cold, fever, sore throat, pneumonia and acute bronchitis are some of the most common symptoms, gastrointestinal inflammation is another possibility, which can result in diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain.
Adenovirus infections cannot be treated with any approved antiviral drugs or methods. Most adenovirus infections are minor, and symptoms can usually be handled with rest and over-the-counter painkillers or fever reducers.