With a student of a college in Thodupuzha hospitalised in Kochi with Nipah infection, a team of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) visited Thodupuzha on Thursday.
The team, accompanied by an epidemiologist and District Medical Officer N. Priya, inspected the college and the rented house where the student stayed with four others.
The team comprised Ruchi Jain, Joint Director at the Regional Health Office under the Central Government, Thiruvananthapuram, and Satheesh Nagaraj and Raghu from the Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode centres of the NCDC.
They interacted with the students who were in touch with the Nipah-infected.
The team inspected the well from where the students collected drinking water and checked the area for bats, believed to be carriers of Nipah virus. The team also collected the details of fruits grown in the area.
The NCDC team also inspected a nearby pig farm.
Ms. Priya said there was no proof of another Nipah case in the district.
So far no case of viral infection had been reported from the district and the suspected cases were found negative, she said adding that the two isolation wards set up at the Taluk Hospital, Thodupuzha, and the Idukki Medical College at Cheruthoni would be retained.
