MANGALORE, Jan 25: A strange kind of fever has struck Lingappayya Kadu village near Mulki, claiming the lives of two children. As many as 65 cases of this ailment have been reported in the village so far.The blood samples of the patients have been sent to the Monkey Fever Research Centre at Shimoga and Microbe Research Centre in Bangalore. Doctors visited the spot and water samples from two borewells in the villages too have been set for lab tests.