Fazar Ali, a resident of Bhandar Daha Morichpara village in Dhantala union, lost five of his family members. Many have already left the village in fear of their lives, bdnews24.com correspondent reported on Monday. Eleven days after his death, his son-in-law Habibur Rahman, 35, died while suffering similar conditions on Feb 20. Yusuf and Mehedi were taken to Rangpur Medical College Hospital after being provided primary medical care at Baliadangi Upazila Health Complex, he added. “A specialist team from the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research or IEDCR will visit the village soon and we hope to identify the disease within few days,” he said.

Source: bd News24 February 26, 2019 09:22 UTC