Kerala has logged 146 Shigella cases and five deaths since January — with 70 cases recorded in June alone — as Health Minister K. Muraleedharan announced a pioneering "outbreak calendar" to map seasonal disease patterns. The Minister blamed poor pre-monsoon cleaning for the bacterial surge, noting that Nipah cases repeatedly hit Kozhikode's Perambra belt between May and September. A seven-year-old boy died from Shigella in Malappuram, and a one-year-old remains...