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Nepal - 33 students fell ill, including five children in a coma, suffering from a mysterious disease.

Sally Furniss

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Translation from Vietnamese

Him Jyoti Primary School Lumjung district, western Nepal on 15 / 6 has to close when 33 students fell ill, including five children in a coma, suffering from a mysterious disease. " High fever and headache are prominent symptoms of the disease. In addition, there are 13 others in the region are also infected.

According to the medical staff here, they may have been typhoid fever viruses or other patients also have yellow fever.

http://www.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Thien-tai-dich-benh-khap-noi-lam-nhieu-nguoi-chet/20106/49206.vnplus
 
Re: Nepal - 33 students fell ill, including five children in a coma, suffering from a mysterious disease.

This seems to be the source the Vietnamese article is quoting. "Unconscious" and "in a coma" are not necessarily the same thing - the translator might be playing a trick on us. The reference to "yellow fever" is definitely a mistranslation of "jaundice" here as well.

http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=19901

School closed over 'mysterious disease'
SAMUNDRA PAUDEL

TANAHUN, June 15: A school at Bajhakhet-6 of Lumjung district has been closed for an indefinite period starting Tuesday after a number of students were taken ill over a ´mysterious disease´.

Him Jyoti Primary School has been closed after around 46 students complained of headache and temperature rise, among others. 16 students were taken ill on Sunday while 27 others on Monday.

Five students are reported to be unconscious. The disease has been also seen on around 13 locals of the same village.

Health workers Kamal Thapa and Mehatar Kashi Ghale who were mobilized from Bajhakhet Sub Health Post said that some students were suffering from typhoid while others from jaundice. Thapa added that some students might be taken ill owing to viral fever.
 
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