The Kerala government on May 7 (Tuesday) issued an alert in the State against West Nile fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection, after one death and around eight cases were reported from Kozhikode, Malappuram and Thrissur districts in recent days.
According to official sources, the death of a 79-year-old man from Vadanappally in Thrissur on May 3 has been attributed to the infection. Five cases have so far been reported in Kozhikode. There are two suspected cases in Malappuram too.
Kozhikode District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh told the media in the evening that four of the five infected persons had been discharged from the Government Medical College Hospital. One person is still under treatment. Three of them are natives of Kozhikode city, and one each from Koodaranhi and Nanminda. Another suspected patient has been admitted to a private hospital, Mr. Singh added.
