Overview
- Health officials reported continued increases in Shigella infections across multiple districts, with Kozhikode and Wayanad recording the highest counts and several districts declaring outbreaks.
- The state launched an anti‑diarrhoeal campaign running June 16 to July 31 to disinfect drinking water, monitor water quality, improve waste management, promote handwashing, and ensure ORS and zinc at local health centres.
- Local teams have stepped up surveillance and containment measures, including repeated house visits in Ramanattukara and active follow‑up of cases and contacts by district control rooms.
- A Nipah patient remains on ventilator support at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital while all symptomatic contacts tested negative so far and 104 people remain on a categorized contact list under observation.
- Health officials warned monsoon conditions raise the risk of faecal‑oral spread, which threatens children, the elderly and immunocompromised people and could increase pressure on local health services if cases keep rising.