Bengaluru/ Shivamogga
The State Health Department has confirmed that two of the five deaths in Kavadigara Hatti in Chitradurga are due to cholera. The death toll in the alleged drinking water contamination case touched five.
Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, who visited Chitradurga along with officials on Saturday, told presspersons that laboratory reports had confirmed the presence of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, in samples of two of the persons who died. “Reports of other samples are awaited. We have ordered a thorough investigation,” he said.
