Mystery fever claims more lives in Kanpur

[The Night Owl]

Source: Times of India

Mystery fever claims more lives in Kanpur
27 Aug 2008, 0446 hrs IST,TNN

KANPUR: The reports of 35 more patients falling to the mystery fever in Kanpur Dehat villages on Tuesday put the administration on tenterhooks.

While senior officials miserably failed to confirm the toll as teams of state health department and experts of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, who were rushed to Kanpur by the Centre to collect samples, too failed to shed light on the disease.

The deadly virus has, so far, claimed 210 lives across 350 villages of Akbarpur, Rasoolabad, Bhognipur and Sikandara tehsils of Kanpur Dehat, leaving villagers panicky. While they have helplessly watched their near ones dying, health experts have no idea about how to check spread of the killer virus.

After making its presence felt in about 350 villages of Kanpur Dehat within a couple of weeks, the virus is now spreading its tentacles into bordering districts of Mainpuri, Etawah, Farrukhabad and Kannauj.

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Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lucknow/Mystery_fever_claims_more_lives_in_Kanpur/articleshow/3409746.cms

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Lab virus intentionally or accidently released????

I have sadly learned to look behind the stories for the answer of who stands to benefit from
major problems in the world.

[The Night Owl]

2. I can't help but wonder if...

... the illness in Kanpur has any connection to this recent
news item from the same place...

Kanpur blast: Shells, powder found near deceased’s home
Express News Service
Posted online: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 02:17:14

Kanpur, August 26 While the police are yet to make a
breakthrough in the August 24 blast that took place in a house
in Rajeev Nagar, two empty shells and 8 kg of spurious powder
were seized in the Shastri Nagar area on Tuesday morning. 

The shells and the powder, which were found in a jute bag
lying in a drain, resembled those found in the Rajeev Nagar
residence. 

The spot from where the recovery was made happens to be very
close to the residence of Bhupinder Singh, who had died in the
August 24 blast along with his friend Rajeev Mishra. 

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http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Kanpur-blast-Shells-powder-found-near-deceaseds-home/353854/

Spurious powder?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Good catch, there.

Spurious powder indeed.

We all know how dangerous spurious is, whether in powder or liquid form.

( desperately seeking icon for dry dry humour)

[amuse bouche]

4. how awful