A medical team of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) found evidence of fever, headache, vomiting and encephalitis affecting the five deceased members of a family who died mysteriously within 15 days of each other in Baliadanga upazila of Thakurgaon district.

One of them was found to have carried the deadly Nipah virus (NiV) as specimens of the virus were found in his body, said an IEDCR press release yesterday.