DHAKA - At least nine children from an ethnic minority
community have died of a mysterious disease in Bangladesh with doctors
struggling to diagnose the cause of the deaths.
Forty-six others were being treated at a specialized hospital in
southeastern Bangladesh.
All the children, who have died in four days, belong to the Tripura
tribe.
"The children, aged between two and 10 years, belonged to the
Tripura tribe... they were suffering from the disease with symptoms of watery
diarrhea, vomiting and respiratory complications," chief government doctor
of Chittagong Azizur Rahman Siddique said.
The disease appeared to be infectious one but so far was concentrated
in one village, he said.
Siddique asked the villagers to temporarily confine nearly 600
school-going children at home so that the disease could not spread.
Officials of Sitakunda sub-district, where the disease broke out, said
all the children belonged to the Tripura community. Four of them died today.
A health ministry spokesman said a special medical team has been sent
to the area for further actions. (PTI)
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