KATHMANDU, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- About 400 persons, most of the children and elderly, have been ill following a sudden outbreak of fever in Tanahun district in western Nepal.

    According to Wednesday's eKantipur.com report, the sick people are suffering from common cold, body pain and headache.

    After the mysterious outbreak of the disease, two grades of Saraswati Primary School have been closed indefinitely.

    Prem Bahadur Thapa, the principal of Kali Ganga Secondary School, said about 75 of the total 500 students failed to go to school due to fever.

    Likewise, Damauli Hospital, in the district headquarters, some 110 km west of Kathmandu, is receiving about 35-40 fever patients on a daily basis.

    Sushilnath Pyakural, Chief of the hospital, said most of the patients have been found infected with viral fever.

    Likewise, the number of fever patients has gone up in other clinics of Damauli.