When Anwara Begum came down with a high fever on 28 December, she and her husband thought it was a cold or the flu. As the hours passed, she grew too weak to eat or get out of bed, and she couldn't move her fingers. On the 30th, Begum's husband, Ramjan Ali, took her to a clinic, where doctors administered fluids for her diarrhea and discharged her. By the time she got home, she was unable to speak. "Both of us were very scared," says Ali.
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