The death of a 27-year-old Army soldier hailing from Kerala has set off fears that he may have been infected with Nipah. Seenu Prasad, was admitted to Kolkata’s Command Hospital on April 20 and he passed away on May 25.
“His body fluids have been sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune, ” said Wing Commander S.S. Birdi, Chief Public Relations Officer in Kolkata for the Ministry of Defence.
According to authorities, the soldier had gone on a month’s leave to Kerala and joined duty on May 13. He was posted at Fort William, the headquarters of the Army’s Eastern Command.
Meanwhile, three patients have been moved to the isolation ward of the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Beleghata in Kolkata after they showed symptoms of viral contamination. Two of them are from Domkal in Murshidabad district and the third is from Ghatal in Paschim Medinipur. They had visited Kerala in the past few weeks.
