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Boy dies of brain fever

By Our Staff Correspondent

GULBARGA, MAY 1. A nine-year-old boy affected by Japanese encephalitis or brain fever died in Surpur on Thursday night. Ambarish Tippanna, who had high fever, fainted in his house on April 3.

After preliminary treatment, he was shifted to the district hospital where it was found that he had Japanese encephalitis.

It is said to be the first case in the district for some years now.

As a precautionary measure, blood samples of 499 people in Surpur, which includes 33 of the boy's relatives, have been sent for testing to Bangalore.

The people have been asked to approach doctors in case they had symptoms such as high fever.

The district administration has taken steps to keep pigs, which are carriers of the virus, away from human settlements and to control mosquitoes.

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