One more person dies of Nipah virus in Kozhikode

KOZHIKODE: One more person succumbed to Nipah virus here on Wednesday, taking the death toll in Kerala's Kozhikode and Malappuram districts to 14.

Madhusudhanan

(55) of Nellikode in Kozhikode district died on Wednesday night, according to health department sources.

He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital here, they said, adding that Madhusudhanan had tested positive of the virus.

The number of confirmed Nipah virus cases has risen to 17 with the National Institute of Virology, Pune, finding its presence in the blood sample of a 28-year-old person from Karassery here, the sources said.