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Third Indian state checks suspect cases in outbreak of rare brain-damaging virus
MAY 25, 2018
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Officials in a third Indian state were checking on Friday if two people had been infected with the brain-damaging Nipah virus that has killed 12 in southern Kerala, although the government described the outbreak as minor.
Blood samples from two men who showed the flu-like symptoms of the virus were sent for testing, said a health official in Telangana, a state neighboring Kerala. ?We just sent them as a precaution,? said K Shankar, medical superintendent of the Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases in Hyderabad.
Two suspect cases in Karnataka, another state bordering Kerala, proved negative, said a medical official there.
MAY 25, 2018
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Officials in a third Indian state were checking on Friday if two people had been infected with the brain-damaging Nipah virus that has killed 12 in southern Kerala, although the government described the outbreak as minor.
Blood samples from two men who showed the flu-like symptoms of the virus were sent for testing, said a health official in Telangana, a state neighboring Kerala. ?We just sent them as a precaution,? said K Shankar, medical superintendent of the Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases in Hyderabad.
Two suspect cases in Karnataka, another state bordering Kerala, proved negative, said a medical official there.
