A Mysterious Village of the Deaf

In Jharkhand state of India here is a village which has produced people who are hard of hearing. In the Muslim-dominated Jhumarvad village of Deogarh district, about 350 km from Ranchi, the problem has mysteriously persisted for decades.

Shakeel Ahmad, a resident, said: "I have three sons and two of them are hard of hearing. We are unable to understand why the people of this village face a hearing problem."

"Even treatment makes no impact on us," he said. Ahmad pointed out that there was hardly a house in the village without at least one hearing impaired.

The problem has refused to go away & Doctors are somewhat baffled.

Manish Kumar, an ENT specialist, said: "The disease might have resulted from some food habit or absence of the hearing vein. It can also be a reaction to medicines or injury in the ear. But the exact reason can be known only after investigating the villagers and studying their medical history."

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