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ISLAMABAD: A mysterious disease that broke out in parts of interior Sindh has killed seven children in the age brackets of 3-12 in Dadu city alone, Zia Muhammad Khan of INP news agency reports Tuesday.

The Dadu district is only few hundred kilometres away from the Southern port city of Karachi where millions of chickens were died and culled voluntarily after the reports of the outbreak of fatal Bird Flue in chickens few months ago.

The residents of many parts of the interior Sindh feared the disease as the initial breakout of Bird Flue in the country in humans. The doctors and health officials, however, did not confirm whether it was Bird Flue or any other viral infection.

The Bird Flue which hit many parts of world since December last year has become a night mare for the poultry industry and human beings as well as it has yet claimed more than 20 lives in Bangkok, Taiwan and other areas.

World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it can take decades to control the disease in totality.

According to initial reports reached here, in the early phase of disease intense fever griped the whole body of victim and neck stars swelling which consequently results in death with in very short span of time, a close monitor of the disease said.

The local doctors and health officials were still struggling to find out any clue about the disease, a source told inp from Dadu on telephone.

A seven-year-old female child of Railway Colony Dadu was shifted to a hospital in Karachi where she was declared as “unrecoverable” by the doctors. The brother of child has already been died by the disease.

The disease has spread an intensified fear among the people of the region and those belonging to other areas of the country have started migrating from the city.

One, mother of four, who reached here from Dadu due to the mounting fear there, told inp that people were worried about the safety and health of their children as disease was widely spreading throughout the interior Sindh rapidly.

Rukia Bano, who has brought three out of her four children, said she was worried about his oldest son, Bilal, who was busy in his exams there. “I don’t know what will happen to him. I wanted to bring him but he himself refused to come with me,” she said with tears sparkling in her eyes.

When contacted the officials of the health ministry in Islamabad, who were not even aware about the disease, said, “We will check the situation if any.” They added that government would take all the possible steps to control the disease in other parts of interior Sindh.