The team led by Chief Public Health Officer Jaya Bahadur Karki of District Public Health Office Bhaktapur with doctors including Dr Khageshwar Gelal of the First Aid Center, Public Health Inspector Tarna Bahadur Shrestha as well as a media team inspected the two villages on Wednesday. [break]
The team collected information on the symptoms of the disease and examined in each house of the patients and distributed medicines.
Similarly, another team which included Dr Nirmal Kandel from WHO, Pranaya Kumar Upadhyay from the Epidemiology Division, and Bishnu Upadhyay from National Public Health Laboratory also collected samples of blood and saliva from the spot.
The seven-member district team will stay in the local school and treat patients in each house daily, said Chief Karki.
The disease has the symptoms like headache, fever, speech loss, trembling, ejecting of saliva, and leading up to death.
Fifteen people have so far died from the disease and more than two dozen have taken ill.
Locals have a different logic about the epidemic that the disease was spread as a headless evil spirit entered the village a few weeks ago and cast a spell thereby spreading the disease.
Local teacher Lal Bahadur Tamang said the disease proliferated due to lack of awareness, filth, open toilet, polluted drinking water and consumption of alcohol.
Red Cross Changu President and teacher Prem Prasad Khatiwada said the disease can be cured if sanitation is started immediately and sale and consumption of alcohol is banned.
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