Nipah virus test of young man from Goa is negative : DHO

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Sep 15, 2021: The lab test report of a young man from Goa who had voluntarily got himself tested for Nipah virus  in Mangaluru on  suspicion, has turned out negative, informed District Health and Family Welfare Officer Dr Kishore Kumar.

 

The young man who hailed from Karwar and worked as a mico biologist at a lab in Goa  had suffered from  fever,  irregular heart beat and head ache following which he  had got himself admitted to a hospital in Karwar and then at Manipal. Presently he is undergoing treatment at Wenlock. His samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology and the report has come out negative, Dr Kishore Kumar said.