Nipah angle ruled out in Kozhikode woman patient’s death

Kozhikode | Saturday | 2nd June, 2018

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She was brought to Kozhikode Medical College only recently as she showed Nipah-like symptoms and was put under observation. Mr.

Sadanandan said that medicines for Nipah infection have been brought from Australia and the same would reach Kozhikode by evening. Jose said that the schools and professional colleges in Kozhikode will reopen only on June 12 as part of a preventive measure against Nipah infection. Mr.

Sadanandan said that the isolation room in Government Medical College hospital, Kozhikode, is maintained following the Ebola handling guidelines. Another patient who was under observation at the Government Medical college Hospital in Kozhikode for symptoms resembling Nipah infection died on Saturday, though her reports have come negative twice and hence could not be considered a Nipah death..