Shivamogga: Suspected KFD virus found in four; admitted to hospital
Shivamogga, Jan 13: Four more suspected Kyasanur Forest Disease afflicted patients were identified in the villages near Aralagodu in Sagar taluk in the district on Saturday. All patients were admitted to Manipal KMC hospital.
Lolakshi and Spoorthi of Mandavalli, Lakshma of Kalamanji, Sharadamma of Sampa were suffering from fever. After treating them at primary health center shifted them to Manipal. Their blood samples were sent to lab tests, health department sources said.
Vaccination accelerated
Vaccination drive in KFD afflicted villages was accelerated. The health department staff in Barangi, Talaguppa, Avinahalli, Tumari, Holebagilu, Kalamanji, Mundalli and Marabidi areas have started vaccination. Hundreds of people in the taluk were vaccinated and the KFD virus broke out in Aralagodu gram Panchayat is under control, department sources said.
Report
Department sources said that KFD virus found in the ticks sent to lab tests due to which the disease is spreading very fast. Now, virus testing lab was set up in Shivamogga and it would help to identify the virus as early as possible.
Villagers in and around Aralagodu panicked due to KFD virus. It is confirmed that two students were afflicted with the virus. Meanwhile, the number of students coming to schools in Aralagodu, Mandavalli and other villages has reduced.
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Jos Buttler hopes short break from cricket will help him in IPL 2026
London (PTI): England batting mainstay Jos Buttler has said that spending time away from cricket after a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign should put him in good stead as he looks for a fresh start with the Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League beginning later this month.
Former England captain Buttler continued to receive the team's backing even as his runs dried up during the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, a lean patch for one of the country's most prominent white-ball batters.
Buttler managed just 87 runs across eight matches at an average of 10.87, with a forgettable strike rate of 116, while opening the batting for England at the World Cup. England bowed out of the tournament after losing to India in a high-scoring semifinal in Mumbai.
The 35-year-old hopes that the break he took from the game since that semifinal on March 5 should help him heading into the IPL starting on March 28.
"I couldn't have been further away from cricket, which for me at the time was just perfect. It's exactly what I needed," Buttler said on 'For the Love of Cricket' podcast.
"Obviously, the tournament didn't go personally how I'd have liked it to go. I just felt like I needed some space (away) from cricket and not to think about the game, and I could not have been further away from cricket where I was in that week," he said.
IPL 2022 winners Gujarat Titans will get their campaign underway on March 31 in an away game against Punjab Kings.
Buttler said the break was energising, which also gave him time to reflect.
"It was really refreshing -- I really enjoyed it -- a complete sort of release," he said.
"Slowly but surely, I'd say at the start of this week, (I am) just starting to reflect a bit and have a few thoughts about what's important to me and my cricket, and why it probably didn't go quite as I would've liked."
Buttler said his lack of runs in the T20 World Cup was not due to lack of effort, since in the lead-up to the semifinal against India he had spent the longest possible time in the nets trying to bat himself back into form. But what had followed was another scratchy 25 runs off 17 balls.
"There's elements (to what went wrong) that I actually don't really know exactly. For all your best intentions and hard work and efforts to perform, it just didn't work, and sometimes that's okay as well. That's something I've had to realise. It wasn't for a lack of effort; it just didn't quite happen,” he said.
