A specialist team from the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research or IEDCR has arrived to identify the disease, Thakurgaon Acting Civil Surgeon Shahjahan Newaz said on Tuesday. The infected individuals suffered from high fever, severe headaches and throat infection, said Newaz, who visited the Bhandar Daha Morichpara village with a medical team. Village Police personnel have been deployed to ensure no people move near the house, the UNO said. There were no reports of similar symptoms in the area, Baliadangi Upazila Health Officer Firoz Zaman Jewel told bdnews24.com. Eleven days after his death, his son-in-law Habibur Rahman, 35, died with similar conditions on Feb 20.

Source: bd News24 February 26, 2019 13:30 UTC