Mangaluru: A 25-year-old young man from Karwar, who was treated at Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru after his concern had contracted Nipah infection, was tested negatively for infection on Wednesday.
Youth, who works in a laboratory kit manufacturing unit in Goa, has returned home for the Ganesha Festival.
The sample was sent for testing to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune after he raised suspicion that he might have contracted a virus.
Read Alsokarwar Man Afraid of the Nipah Virus, the sample sent to the 25-year-old Niva Pune from Karwar was being isolated and treated at Wenlock Hospital managed by the government in Mangaluru after he complained of fever, and fear he had contracted a nipah virus infection.
Youth, who works in a laboratory kit manufacturing unit in Goa, has returned home for Health Officers and the family of Ganeshadistrict Dr.
Kishore Kumar M insists that he has been found negative for the infection of the Nipah virus.
The young men were reported to be soaked on the rain on September 8 while riding his bicycle from Goa to his home town of Karwar.
He then suffered a fever and headache.
He looked for symptoms on the internet and worried he could sign a nipah infection.
The man then approached a hospital in Karwar, who referred him to a private hospital in Udupi.
He was then taken to Wenlock Hospital on September 11.
His family members are also isolated.
Allegedly a Nipah case in Karnataka: Negative human tests
