Mystery disease affects 100 at Bangladesh school
Pastor Dale Morgan
Mystery disease affects 100 at Bangladesh school*
Reuters
Saturday, July 14, 2007; 12:12 PM
DHAKA (Reuters) - More than 100 students and teachers from a school in
Bangladesh have been admitted to hospital after suffering convulsions,
police said on Saturday.
The cause of their sudden illness was being investigated.
The victims fell ill at Adiabad School and College near Narshingdi
district town, 55 km (34 miles) northeast of the capital Dhaka, a police
inspector said.
Twenty-three people died in Bangladesh in 2004 from a mysterious disease
later diagnosed as an encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain caused
by a viral infection. Dozens more were infected with the disease, which
some had feared was bird flu.
Bird flu in Bangladesh since March this year has forced authorities to
cull nearly 255,000 chickens and destroy more than 2.2 million eggs.
Authorities said there was no case of human infection.