KANPUR: Six persons, including three children, died of `mystery' fever in separate villages of Ramabai Nagar on Sunday.
The outbreak of the fever has forced the health department to send a team of doctors to the affected villages of Rasoolabad, Amraudha, Sarwan Kheda and Gajner.
According to sources, six more patients of malaria were admitted at the district hospital on Sunday. As many as 97 people are suffering from the fever.
Those succumbed to the `mystery' fever on Sunday were identified as Vikas (4) of Gandhi Nagar, Rasoolabad, Mukesh (30) of Amrauhiya, Shalini (7) and Ram Avtar (55), both of Amraudha, Anwar (40) of Gajner and Gaurav (13) of Sarwan Kheda.
SDM, Derapur, SD Ram said: "We are yet to identify the exact nature of the fever."
According to the doctor at Rasoolabad primary health centre, all the victims first developed high fever before having convulsions and dying.
A paediatrician, who accompanied the health team to the villages, said that the outbreak seemed to be a virulent form of encephalitis.
"The children succumbed within 12-14 hours of the onset of high fever," he said.
"We have told the block health officials in Derapur to clear the stagnant water immediately and send blood samples collected from affected persons to the district hospital at Akbarpur," chief medical officer Lajjaram said.
Nearly 400 villagers of Gilauliya in Derapur block are down with fever since the past one week. Shiva, Jaipal, Mahipal, Jyoti, Phool Kumari, Kapil, Vishal, Muskan, Rohit, Jaikaran, Neha, Ravi, Nidhi, Romi, Reeta, Shiv Devi, Rukmani, Rampyari, Sharbati, Prema, Priyanka and Sindoori were among those having fever.
Raghuram of Derapur said his three-year-old son, Bablu, was fine when he had dinner and went to bed last night. "He suddenly fell ill this morning. We took him to the health centre where he became unconscious."
"There is no health facility here and the doctors are just distributing paracetamol tablets," Balram, another villager added.
The outbreak of the fever has forced the health department to send a team of doctors to the affected villages of Rasoolabad, Amraudha, Sarwan Kheda and Gajner.
According to sources, six more patients of malaria were admitted at the district hospital on Sunday. As many as 97 people are suffering from the fever.
Those succumbed to the `mystery' fever on Sunday were identified as Vikas (4) of Gandhi Nagar, Rasoolabad, Mukesh (30) of Amrauhiya, Shalini (7) and Ram Avtar (55), both of Amraudha, Anwar (40) of Gajner and Gaurav (13) of Sarwan Kheda.
SDM, Derapur, SD Ram said: "We are yet to identify the exact nature of the fever."
According to the doctor at Rasoolabad primary health centre, all the victims first developed high fever before having convulsions and dying.
A paediatrician, who accompanied the health team to the villages, said that the outbreak seemed to be a virulent form of encephalitis.
"The children succumbed within 12-14 hours of the onset of high fever," he said.
"We have told the block health officials in Derapur to clear the stagnant water immediately and send blood samples collected from affected persons to the district hospital at Akbarpur," chief medical officer Lajjaram said.
Nearly 400 villagers of Gilauliya in Derapur block are down with fever since the past one week. Shiva, Jaipal, Mahipal, Jyoti, Phool Kumari, Kapil, Vishal, Muskan, Rohit, Jaikaran, Neha, Ravi, Nidhi, Romi, Reeta, Shiv Devi, Rukmani, Rampyari, Sharbati, Prema, Priyanka and Sindoori were among those having fever.
Raghuram of Derapur said his three-year-old son, Bablu, was fine when he had dinner and went to bed last night. "He suddenly fell ill this morning. We took him to the health centre where he became unconscious."
"There is no health facility here and the doctors are just distributing paracetamol tablets," Balram, another villager added.
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