Kanpur: Locked houses, death cases and stingy silence surround Kursauli village under Kalyanpur Block of Kanpur Nagar district.
With panic spreading due to the death of at least 12 people in the last month here due to a mysterious fever, many residents left their respective houses.
Additional chief medical officer of Kanpur Nagar district Dr Subodh Prakash said surveys were being conducted in the village to look for mosquito larvae in and out of the houses, news reports said.
'Our medical team is working round-the-clock to tackle the situation,' the senior doctor informed.
Earlier, it was reported by the agency that more than 250 people, including several children, were hospitalised in the last month due to a viral fever outbreak.
Some of them were diagnosed with dengue and malaria.
It has also been reported that about 200 children were being treated for diseases like fever, tuberculosis and so on.
'We have 15-20 children suffering from viral fever and all of them are recovering well. One child has been diagnosed with dengue,' Dr Manish Yadav hinted at.
