KATHMANDU: The death toll from a suspected outbreak of swine flu in Tajakot Rural Municipality in Humla district in western Nepal has reached nine.
Some 200 locals have been taken ill in the epidemic from March 9. But, they are yet to receive medicines, Naya Patrika Daily reported.
Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) has briefed the stakeholders about the epidemic. However, no team from the central or the provincial government has reached the place.
EDCD has suspected an outbreak of swine flu in the rural municipality. The municipality has no road connectivity and it takes three days on foot to reach the place.
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