Nuwakot :Three children below 13 years of age have died and   another 200 children have been affected by an outbreak of measles at ward No. 3 and 4 of local Mahakali VDC, it is learnt from the district health office.

However, the disease has been brought under control and the situation is said to be normal in the affected areas at present.

At one point, the spread of the disease had taken gigantic proportions as the local people turned to the village shamans for treatment. But timely intervention from the district health office is said to have helped contain the disease.

A team of health workers led by chief of the district health office Dr. Sushil Nath Pyakurel send by the district health office on February 21 succeeded in bringing the disease under control after distributing medicine and vaccination.