Already grappling with various allergies and viral fever, Delhi has registered 479 dengue cases, 218 malaria cases, 12 cases of chikungunya and five confirmed cases of Japanese Encephalitis this se

Gorakhpur: Some 25 kilometres from the main city, is a small village named Holiya. Not a single case of encephalitis was reported from this hamlet in the last two seasons.

Dibrugarh, Oct.

With six more persons succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll due to the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has climbed to 438 this year, health officials said on Friday.

The encephalitis-related deaths have acquired an alarming rate here. Between Wednesday and Thursday, a death was reported every two hours at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College.

Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of eight more children in the last five days in Bihar's Gaya district, taking the death toll in the epidemic to 62, a health official said Thursday.

The two children died in the last 24 hours and six in the last five days at Anugrah Narayan Medical College and Hospital (ANMCH), about 100 km from here, hospital superintendent Sitaram Prasad said.

More than 400 people, mainly children, died in an outbreak of viral encephalitis in northern India, health officials said yesterday.

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With another person testing positive for Japanese Encephalitis, the number of people affected by the virus rose to five in the city.

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