Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday launched a two-day vaccination campaign in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district hit by a suspected encephalitis outbreak that has claimed the lives of at least

The Centre and Bihar Government will undertake a special vaccination drive immunising children in select districts of Bihar affected by the killer Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on June 22 and 2

44 children have died of the disease in Bihar over the past month

Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has spread in 30 villages under ten blocks of East Champaran district during the last one fortnight.

AES outbreak in Siliguri in 1996, traced to imported raspberry, may have led to ‘litchi theory’.

Dreaded Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) that has taken toll of 25 children in the last fortnight in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur continue to baffle the experts who have for the first time noticed absence

MUZAFFARPUR: One child died at SKMCH on Sunday and none at Kejriwal Hospital, although a total of 11 new cases of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) have officially been reported including seven at

The death toll emerging from acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) rose to nine here on Thursday with five more children succumbing to the undiagnosed disease. The highest number of the season, i.e.

The recent finding that dengue fever has emerged in Houston, Texas—the first major United States city in modern times with autochthonous dengue—adds to previous evidence indicating that the Gulf Coast of the Southern US is under increasing threat from diseases thought previously to affect only developing countries.

One among three long-standing mystery diseases listed in Wikipedia is acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. This disease has remained for over two decades without determining a cause for; hence it is called mystery disease. It occurs annual seasonal outbreaks during the months of April-July, affecting hundreds of children with 40-60% mortality, according to local physicians.

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