Imphal, Jan 15 : IN WHAT could be seen as a move to affirm that the 'mysterious disease' that hit the Misao Lhavom village of south Manipur's Churachandpur district wherein 48 persons were reportedly hospitalised over the last few days, was nothing related to the much speculated bird flu, all the patients have been discharged from the hospital with the last batch, six of them, being discharged today.
A mysterious disease had hit the village of Misao Lhavom over the last few days with a total of 48 in all being admitted to the Churachandpur district hospital.
And affirming once again that it had nothing related to bird flu, S.Haojel, chief medical officer (CMO) of the district informed that it was nothing related to bird flu.
However, he disclosed that as the doctors could not diagnose the disease, all the patients had to be treated at the district hospital isolation ward.
The CMO also informed that the disease had affected the people from the same village.
The first case was reported on Sunday, January 4 when a 15 year old girl from the village was brought for treatment at the hospital.
The symptoms of the unknown disease include headache, fever, cough and shivering.
However, the results of the blood samples of the infected villagers and the water of the surrounding villages which has been sent for checking is still awaited, the CMO informed.
Besides this, it is worth mentioning here there were also reports of fowls dying due to an unknown disease drawing speculations of the spread of bird flu in the state.
However, reports have shown that there was no such thing as bird flu but that the fowls died due to related water borne disease which was rather common in the district.
This once and for all, reportedly ended any speculation of bird flu in the state even with the CMO clarifying that there was no bird flu in the district.