More 106 admitted to Nilphamari hospitals

Many patients went home fully cured but returned to hospitals. Blood is found in their stool and vomit, which suggest that they are attacked with a new type of germ which is stronger than typical diarrhoea germ, they said.

But this is yet to be determined. A team from the ICDDR,B in Dhaka has collected stool samples and sent those to Dhaka for culture, they said.

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Most of the patients with such symptoms come from villages near Teesta and Charalkatha rivers, Civil Surgeon Nazrul Islam said while talking to this correspondent.

The river waters might be carrying the germ he said but declined to speculate on the type of the germs.

The civil surgeon said two more temporary diarrhoea treatment camps have been set up at Ramnagar and Panchapukur villages in the Sadar Upazila.

He however said the situation is under control as there was no death in the last 48 hours.

"The germ is so strong that it still survives (after treatment)", commented a doctor at Nilphamari Sadar Hospital.

"Blood is found in their stool and vomit", said another doctor at Jaldhaka health complex.

Meanwhile, more 106 patients were admitted to the six hospitals in the district in 48 hours ending at noon yesterday, according to Mahbub-e-Rabbani, at the district health department control room.

More 5000 bags of Colera I V saline reached the district health department yesterday from Dhaka, the civil surgeon said.

RDRS, an NGO, donated 2996 bags of Cholera IV saline.

Come to Work, another NGO, donated 2400 bags of oral saline.

The government has distributed 10 kgs of rice per head through 63,800 UGF cards in the district. Besides, 308 tonnes of rive have been allotted for distribution under test relief, officials said.