Kathmandu, Nov. 2 -- Three people suffering from severe diarrhoea have tested positive for cholera in the rapid diagnostic test (RDT) carried out on Sunday in the disease-hit Lekharam, Sadabasti in ward 5 of Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality of Saptari district.

Over the past ten days three people including two children-a one-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl-and a 70-year-old man succumbed to the deadly disease in the rural municipality.

"We didn't know about the spread of diarrheal infection and deaths until Friday," said Dipendra Prasad Yadav, health coordinator of the rural municipality. "We have deployed a team of health workers, supplied medicine to the affected village, and carried out rapid diagnostic tests."

According to Yad...