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Local administration has declared all the 117 schools of Hatibandha upazila under Lalmonirhat District of Bangladesh closed for six days from Saturday to control the spread of unknown disease, sources said. Meanwhile 24 people died where most of them are children beginning from 31st January 2011 in the two districts of the country-Lalmonirhat and Rangpur.   Locals said the sign of the disease is very high fever which is going out of control and the patients embrace death. 

Is it Nipah encephalitis? It is not sure till now as the death toll is out of control from the disease which has been continuing for the last six days beginning on 31 January 2011 in Bangladesh, local sources said. The first case of death was happened at Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Monday last (31st  January 2011 ). The deceased were identified as Sabina, 3, daughter of Mokbul Hossain of Saniazan Char village, Sajjad Hossain, 3, son of Belal Hossain of Tongvanga village, Rajjak Miah, 32, son of Abbas Ali of Genduguri village under Hatibandha upazila, and Aronno Ghos, 8, son of Ashok Ghos of 'bus stand' area of Hatibandha town. As the symbol of the disease locals said, with high fever, they were taken to Hatibandha upazila health complex where Sabina died on Monday night. The patient gets high fever ranging from 103 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit and it has no treatment except symptom management, IEDCR sources said. More eight people died on 2nd February 2011. O