Surprisingly, the government mechanism is yet to identify the disease in the not-so-remote district, 11 days after the first death.
The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, which said on Sunday and Monday that the deaths are not due to diarrhea or malaria, has made no headway thereafter.
A team each from Kathmandu and Janakpur were sent to the area on Sunday while a team from district headquarters reached the area on Saturday but the division maintains that it has not found time to bring the samples to Kathmandu for test.
Dr Khanal claimed that the disease has been contained, but failed to justify how the disease, which has not even been identified, was contained.
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