Mumbai attacks’ survivor: Ajmal Kasab does not have dengue

The only surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai siege, Ajmal Kasab, recovered from a high-grade fever which was earlier suspected to be dengue, according to an India Today report. The Indian website quoted an Arthur Road Jail official as saying on Sunday that Kasab had undergone tests inside the high-security cell. The test was conducted by Mumbai-based doctors, who were called in to test Kasab for symptoms of malaria or dengue. The tests came negative and the doctors declared that he was running high-grade fever. Furthermore, the jail’s superintendent, Suresh Karnik, verified that the tests proved that Kasab had not contracted dengue fever. A hospital official said that the symptoms were dengue-like, however the possibility had nearly been ruled out.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 6^th, 2012.