HARIPUR, Oct 15: The outbreak of high degree viral fever has been reported in various parts of district Haripur.

The disease, called Dungeo fever comontl which first spread by a specie of mosquito in African countries and attacks adults, has reportedly left four persons, including two women, dead and hopitalization of dozens of others.

Official sources at the district headquarters, however, declined to accept the deaths as a result of viral fever and termed these cases normal and due to some other reasons.

Owing to the severity of the situation, the teams of WHO and the NIH had visited the affected areas and collected blood samples for pathological analysis. The result of reports are still awaited.

The cases registered daily at the out-patients departments (OPDs) of the government as well as private hospitals show 50 to 60 per cent increase in the patients suffering from viral fever in the district.

“We are receiving over 45 per cent positive cases of malaria daily,” said Azhar, a private lab technician, who was of the view that BT trophozoites cell and trophozoites ring cells in blood samples were tested at his lab.

The worst hit areas are the villages of Khanpur, including Bareela, Bandi Muneem, Pind Muneem, Chach, Pind Gujran, Rani Wah, Kamilpur and Hattar, and some villages of union council Sera-i-Nehmat Khan where the Dungeo fever has played havoc, leaving scores of people suffering from high fever.

Those who died of viral fever, according to Mr Shah, were identified as Mohammad Taj and Mohammad Riaz of Rani Wah village, Ms Reshman Jan and Barkat Bibi, wife of Mohammad Aslam, of Chach village.