Mysterious fever kills five in 12 days

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/5755638.cms

Mysterious fever kills five in 12 days
Kulsum Yusuf, TNN, Apr 2, 2010, 11.18pm IST

RAJKOT: A mysterious fever has claimed five lives, including that of two children, in the past 12 days at Trakuda village in Khambha taluka of Amreli district. The village has a population of 2,000.

The district health officers were not available for comment. The new born baby of Ashok Ambabhai did not survive even for a day. Savji Arjan's daughter had come to her maternal home for delivery but her baby too did not survive for long. Nileshpari Rameshpari, 17, Jivabahi Bhagvanbhai ,70, and Harjivan Premjibahi, 60, also fell victims to the fever.

At present, the village chief and district farmers' organisation secretary Bharat Dudhat is suffering from dengue. He said, "We have requested the state health department and district administration for help."

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Re: Mysterious fever kills five in 12 days

This has a very high probability of being the old "several illnesses" routine - two of the five deaths were babies under one day old - they likely didn't live long enough to contract anything infectious and die from it (and there is no indication that they were infected in the womb). And two of the other three were over 60 years old - old enough to die of natural causes, perhaps.

Note also the lack of anyone else mentioned as ill.