Tag: Encephalitis

Malkangiri: With the death of one more child, the death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) mounted to 116 in Malkangiri district. Two-year old Kasi Madkami of Korakonda succumbed to the vector borne disease while undergoing treatment at district headquarters hospital today. Three more kids are also currently in the ICU of the hospital in […]

Patna: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday issued a notice to the Bihar government and the Union Health Ministry calling for a detailed report on the growing number child deaths caused by the encephalitis virus in the state’s Muzaffarpur district. The NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports about the rising […]

Bhubaneswar: Litchis, which adorned the shelves of fruit sellers till yesterday, have surprisingly vanished from the markets, after the Odisha government ordered laboratory testing of the fruit following reports that its consumption is leading to spread of Encephalitis in Bihar. Yesterday, Odisha Health minister, Naba Das had asked officials to collect samples of litchi being […]

Patna: A Bihar court on Monday ordered an investigation against Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey on charges of negligence that killed nearly 150 children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur district over the past fortnight. The Chief Judicial Magistrate’s (CJM) Suryakant Tiwari ordered the Additional Chief Judicial […]

Guwahati: Forty-five people have died till July 3 since the outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis in Assam, the National Health Mission said Thursday. Most of upper Assam districts, including Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, and the lower Assam district of Kamrup have been affected by the mosquito-borne disease. “Assam is undergoing the transmission season for Japanese Encephalitis […]