Severe diarrhea reported in boys' hostels

Kathmandu, Sept 18. School Reporter.

It has been reported that there have been severe cases of diarrhea running around the boys' hostels this week. According to our sources who did not want to be identified, it started when a certain boy of senior year house had to run out of the morning assembly, the acoustic effects of his expelling activities could be heard accross the floor according to three different sources. Soon after boys could be found in the dorms skipping classes and saying they didn't mean to bunk the lessons they couldn't do anything else, to the prefects and the duty teachers in-charge. They were referred to the school clinic apparently.

The school clinic has reported seeing elevated cases of stomach troubles this week, but has refused to give the exact names of the victims or the criminals, saying at least a few dozen cases have been found. Most of them have not been severe, according to the nurse was willing to talk to us, and a packet of jeevan jal and a medicine to hold the runs have been effective in most cases. For the more severe cases where dehydration could be expected, a few guys have been put in the quarantine ward.

While our secret sources won't go into detailing the potential cause of the diarrheal outbreak, the school clinic claims that it is common this time of the year due to boys eating bad food outside or just some bacterial or viral infection. However some sources claim that the outbreak can directly be credited to one or two superspreading events when a few lawbreakers illegally acquired and smuggled large batches of momo from vendors of ill repute outside the school walls. According to the sources, the momos and the jhols smelled pretty bad, and some said lets not do it boys the sauce looks to be made from rotten tomatoes it could give us stomach troubles but the gang had already attacked the large pile of momos, not to be outdone and left behind. "It was just not one incident either," our source says, " I warned them that our source, the cheapest restaurant in Narayansthan which has been known to serve unidentified meat and really shitty sauce, is not realiable but they made fun of me and went in any way". While talking to the victims who actively participated in the illegal feast while being warned by their friend, we were told that the report has gone to the vendor and they said they would look into their raw materials more carefully. No formal complaint of any kind has been filed anywhere.

Similar reports have not come forward from the girls' hostels. Our sources embedded with the girls say that a group or two did order from the place of ill-repute but girls succesfully identified the bad batch by smell and notified the rest of the houses. "When we were informed that the seller was selling rotten momo, we went to the better restaurant because they have higher quality items and the cost is not that much more. As far as I can verify, no girl has gotten severely ill recently, and there have been no cases of momo-related illness certainly," our source says.

While the diarrhea outbreak is hopefully behind us, authorities are preparing for yet another outbreak of conji also known as conjunctivirus for this year.