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Director of Health Services urged public to wear mask and avoid self-medication. Death toll in fever cases touched 86 in Kerala.
At least 12,728 persons sought treatment for fever in Kerala's government hospitals alone.
Contagious diseases claimed 81 lives in Kerala within a month.
Health department on Friday confirmed recent deaths of an elderly man and his son at Ponnani were due to rat fever.
Only 15 of the 47 vehicles with the health department in Idukki are permitted to hit the road.
Kerala has been witnessing a steep rise in the spread of fever cases like dengue, rat fever, H1N1 and chikungunya.
Twenty-three of 45 technical assistant posts at the district level, 76 of 176 health supervisor positions at the block level, and 122 of the over 800 health inspector posts in panchayats are lying vacant in the state.
The number of new patients who sought treatment for fever in the Out-Patient section in hospitals across the district touched 1,338 on the day.
Rat fever, dengue or H1N1 were the cause of death in all cases.
Malappuram, Kozhikode, Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram reported the highest number of fever cases in Kerala. Two people died of dengue fever in Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram.