Sindhuli, Nepal: Undiagnosed Disease - 6 Dead/150 sick (High Fever, Vomiting Blood, etc)

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Re: Sindhuli, Nepal: Undiagnosed Disease - 6 Dead/150 sick (High Fever, Vomiting Blood, etc)

That death was in a third village, not one of the first two. I do not trust the description of the illness at all, however. Nepal has been caught at least twice by ProMed (see above) exaggerating the symptoms of an illness for political reasons. They have been adding hemorrhagic symptoms to all kinds of illnesses. Note that this article doesn't mention the symptoms anymore. I still do not rule out cholera and dysentery. The statement that they don't have time to test the samples means that this isn't that high a priority for them as one would think, which is certainly not consistent with a fast-spreading hemorrhagic-type illness. I'm still not sure that this is a single illness and isn't just background noise.

 

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Re: Sindhuli, Nepal: Undiagnosed Disease - 6 Dead/150 sick (High Fever, Vomiting Blood, etc)

It is not clear if this is another report of the sixth death, or the report of a seventh. The article says the person was 11, not 13 as reported yesterday, and does change the date of death from Tuesday to Wednesday, but the article seems to indicate that there are only five other deaths. And this is the same village as yesterday.

http://ekantipur.com/kolnews.php?&nid=209297

Mysterious disease death

SINDHULI: Wakil Bahadur Magar (11) of Kapilkot in Sindhuli died of an unknown disease on Wednesday. Five people, including three children, have already succumbed to the disease since then. (PR)

 

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Re: Sindhuli, Nepal: Undiagnosed Disease - 6 Dead/150 sick (High Fever, Vomiting Blood, etc)

I think it is the same death because the ages of the first five deaths were 4,9,13,42,and 55. If we had both an 11 and a 13, to add to that, it would be five children, not three or four.