pilibhit as many as four people have died of fever in the past two weeks in naugwan pakarya town area located on the outskirts of uttar pradeshs pilibhit district according to the districts chief medical officer cmo dr alok kumar a 15yearold boy devansh mishra of class nine showed symptoms of acute stomachache and succumbed to the mystery fever on wednesday after struggling for life for four days the town area has a population of over 40000 residentsthe victims have been identified as suresh chandra saxena 72 khushalo devi 40 suresh kumar 38 and devansh rajiv mishra devanshs father who works as a cab driver said my son first caught fever and later showed symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea we could not save his life despite getting medical treatment however the locals claimed that as many as eight people have died since october 12 following the deaths the cmo inspected the area and deployed a team of officials from the health department to collect blood samples of people suffering from fever he said as many as 201 blood samples were tested for dengue and 330 samples for malaria so far only one person has been detected positive for denguemeanwhile most of the test reports came back as positive for typhoid the prime reason behind this is likely the use of contaminated hand pump water for drinking by every household in the town the residential area has over a kilometrelong filthy and polluted water body just close to it this possibly may be the prime cause of the hand pump waters contamination said the cmo