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A large number of yaks in the pastureland in Disyang Rural Municipality in Manang are taken ill and around 30 died from an unidentified disease. Chief of Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Services Expert Centre, Manang, Narayan Kusum said that a team of livestock technicians have visited the site for the treatment of the disease after the issue was noticed. The yaks have developed the symptoms of high fever, maximum salivation, difficulty in breathing, swollen throat and some others. So far 30 yaks have died of the disease. On the basis of the symptoms on yaks, the technicians have suspected the spread of foot and mouth disease. However, it is yet to confirm from the sample test of blood and bone marrow of yaks, according to Kusum. Veterinarians have continued their surveillance as the yaks are still sick in the pastureland. The Centre stated that samples of the blood and bone marrow have been sent to Provincial Veterinary Laboratory in Pokhara for the diagnosis of the disease. However, Chief of the Laboratory, Kedar Raj Pandey, said the disease is not confirmed yet adding that yak dung was needed to confirm whether or not foot and mouth disease was spread in Manang. Pandey argued that chances are high for the infection of parasite leech on animals in the Himalayas during September and October. “That could have also created problems on animals,” he added.

A man died of electrocution in Palpa on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Mahesh Rai (34) of Jantedhunga Rural Municipality-3, Khotang. DSP Birendra Thapa of the District Police Office, Palpa said that the incident occurred while he was working at the house of Jhabindra Devkota in Tansen Municipality-4. Critically injured in the incident, Rai breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Mission Hospital in Palpa.  

Weather across the country is likely to remain partly to generally cloudy throughout the day today with the possibility of light to moderate rainfall at many places of the country, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The DHM said that there is a chance of partly to generally cloudy weather in some places of Province 1, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces and slight rain along with thunder in some places of other provinces. Currently, the low pressure line of the monsoon is towards north in the eastern region of the country while it is in the normal area in the western part. Likewise, weather across the nation will remain partly to generally cloudy with the chance of light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorms and lightning at one or two places of Province 1, Madhesh, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces tonight. As per the latest details of the Meteorological Forecasting Division, today's minimum temperature of the Kathmandu Valley is recorded at 20.2 degree Celsius and maximum temperature at 30.2 degree Celsius.

Three persons died of Japanese encephalitis in different locations in Makawanpur district, the District Health Office confirmed. The causalities were reported two from Bakaiya Rural Municipality and one from Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City. Likewise, 48-year-old Susmita Gole from Bagmati Rural Municipality is receiving treatment in Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan, after getting a serious Japanese encephalitis infection. Meanwhile, the District Health Office said that dengue infection in Makawanpur district was out of control adding that over 750 patients of dengue were traced in different wards of Manahari Rural Municipality and Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City. Provisions have been ensured for their treatment and patients with critical health conditions have been referred to Bharatpur Hospital in Chitwan and Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Patan Hospital, and Bir Hospital in the capital city.