Unknown disease tolls 9 in eastern Nepal

Kathmandu (Nepal):
An unknown disease tolls reachednine after two more people died on Saturday of the disease that broke out in a eastern district in Nepal, a local government officer confirmed here Sunday.
"The two of them died within hours after being infected by the disease on Saturday night in Beltar area of Udayapur district, some 300 km east of Kathmandu," Jeevan Prasad Oli, chief district officer, told reporters.
The outbreak of the unknown disease already claimed the lives of seven patients in Beltar, Sudarpur and Siddipur villages of the district in the past few weeks.
The symptoms included high fever, headache as well as bleeding from the nose and vomiting blood, Oli noted, adding, "Patients infected with the disease have been taken to a hospital in Dharan city for treatment."
A three-member medical team has already been dispatched to the disease affected area, Oli added.
28 August, 2005