Manipal: Another patient dies of KFD at KMC Hospital
Manipal: In another reported death due to Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a 38 year old woman died at Jasturba Hospital at Manipal (KMC) here on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as Poornima (38), a resident of Sagar Taluk in Shimoga district.
With this death, the toll of deaths due to KFD in Shimoga district has gone up to 10, four of whom died at KMC hospital in Manipal.
KFD is caused by a virus belonging to the family Flaviviridae, which also includes yellow fever and dengue fever.
The symptoms of the disease include a high fever with frontal headaches, followed by haemorrhagic symptoms, such as bleeding from the nasal cavity, throat, and gums etc.
The KFD broke out in Shimoga and other adjoining districts late in 2018, and several cases have been detected ever since. However, Medical administrations in Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts have assure that no cases were reported positive, even after several suspected deaths of monkeys were reported in both the districts.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
