Hepatitis-E Outbreak: 5 more test positive in Qazigund village Archives

With five more cases of Hepatitis-E coming to fore, the number of people diagnosed of the infection in Cheki-Wangund village of Kulgam district in South Kashmir has reached 13. The doctors had last week confirmed outbreak of Hepatitis-E in the village after eight people were tested positive for the infection. The highly contaminated water supplied to the inhabitants by the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department was attributed as the sole reason for the outbreak. “Five more people have tested positive for infection,” said a doctor today. He said that out…