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In a garbage-infested Noida village, fevers have been claiming lives this monsoon -Menaka Rao

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But the district health administration refutes claims of a 'mystery virus'. The causes of death were different in each case, they say.

Just 10 minutes of rain in Sarfabad village in Noida township caused floods in its bylanes. Children who decided that it was time to play wading in the blackish sewage water. The roads are lined with mounds of garbage. On Friday, civic authorities had removed silt from the gutters that were then piled up in black heaps near the gutters. That silt was washed away again by the next round of rain.

In this village, there have been ten deaths just in the month of August. Residents claim that most of the deceased had suffered fever and body pain for a few days before they died. Public health authorities in Noida investigating the deaths have said that the the causes of death were different in each case including. Some died of heart attacks, they said. There was no outbreak of any disease, they claimed.

Despite this, television reports have started talking about a mystery virus afflicting the area's residents.

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