Director of Health Services reviews fever situation
The Health Department has directed its health supervisors to strengthen disease prevention and control activities at the field-level as viral fevers, including dengue and H1N1 cases, may go up as the monsoon intensifies.

The Director of Health Services (DHS) convened a meeting on Friday to review the epidemic situation in various districts.

With the death toll in the mysterious disease rising to 47 on Sunday, the Bihar government is likely to declare it an epidemic.
Under the epidemic Act, the Health Ministry will be empowered to take samples of brain tissues of the mystery disease victims.

Six deaths have been reported during the last 48 hours, including five at K D Kejriwal Maternity Hospital.

KOHIMA: The month of June is observed as the

Priti, Nirjala, Sahil and Sonu, all three years old, Ajit (6), Anshu (4), Amarjit (8) and Shivani, just one and a half, were among the 15 children who have died of suspected encephalitis at Muzaffarpur

Kejriwal Matri Sadan, sited in the heart of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, is exploding with fear, panic and chaos over a

At least 22 children below the age of six years have died, and 35 others hospitalised during the past one week in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district due to a mystery disease, officials said.

While four children died at the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), three others died at the Kejriwal Hospital in Muzaffarpur town, they said.

SKMCH paediatrician Braj Mohan said:

LUCKNOW: With 512 children succumbing to the dreaded Japanese Encephalitis/ Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Gorakhpur Medical College alone this year, the demand for a National Encephalitis Eradication Programme gets louder in eastern UP.

The deadly virus has claimed more than 10,000 lives in the belt since 2006.

Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) here are now engaged in developing an indigenous vaccine to counter Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus.

Teena Thacker
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS

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Every year, as this season rolls around, Gorakhpur and surrounding districts in eastern Uttar Pradesh are ravaged by a form of encephalitis, which causes brain inflammation and kills hundreds of people. This year, over 250 children have died and many more disabled by the disease.

In no other place in India is an illness so predictable and so lethal.