Seven more students in Kerala's Wayanad district have tested positive for Shigella infection, raising the total cases to 16. Health officials have intensified surveillance and awareness efforts, while contaminated well water at a local school is suspected to be the source of the outbreak

Keralam Health Minister K. Muraleedharan said preliminary test results had indicated a Nipah virus infection, although final confirmation from the National Institute of Virology is still awaited