Fourteen found suffering from yellow fever in Province no. 1

Damak : Fourteen people have been found suffering from yellow fever in province no. 1 this year. The data is from January to October of this year where seven people were diagnosed with the disease in Mechinagar and Jhapa rural municipalities, according to Acting Medical Superintendent of Damak Hospital Dr Bipin Kumar Pandey.
Speaking at an interaction organized by Damak municipality on Friday, Dr Pandey shared that three more were found in Morang, two in Sunsari and two in Ilam districts. Jhapa district was found with the highest number of infections. According to latest data, 13 districts bordering India are highly affected while 33 are affected by the disease. Though yellow fever has already been abolished from Nepal, sporadic infections are on the rise.