A six-month-old baby succumbed to a deadly mosquito-borne disease in Bihar on Thursday, taking the toll from the disease to three in 2013, and 16 children have been admitted to hospitals in Muzaffarpur, officials said.
Families of hundreds of children who died of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar are yet to be paid compensation announced by the state government last month, an official said Monday. Nearly 20 days after the state
The World Health Organisation is ready to provide all assistance to encephalitis-hit Bihar, according to WHO India representative Nata Menabde. She said that while WHO was ready to provide all assistance for establishing what
The disease has already claimed the lives of more than 200 children and affected nearly 600 in Bihar. Distraught parents are now praying to god to save their children. The disease, called acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), is
Pune's National Institute of Virology has confirmed that the disease which has killed over 200 people in Bihar isn't Japanese encephalitis. The acute encephalitis syndrome(AES) that has killed 233 children in Bihar since May is
Five more children died of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district Sunday, taking the toll in the state to 230 since May, an official said. Additional Secretary (Health) R.P. Ojha said that of the 581
Four more children died of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, taking the death toll from the disease to 204 in the last one month, officials said. Additional Secretary (Health) R.P. Ojha said that
The mystery disease which has claimed 200 lives in Bihar and had been termed as ‘Acute Encephalitis Syndrome’ is actually just encephalitis said the Bihar government. Lab tests proved that the disease was encephalitis
Nine more children have died of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar's Gaya, Muzaffarpur and Patna districts, taking the state's toll from the disease to 159 in the last three weeks, officials said here Saturday. "Fresh
Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), the deadly mosquito-borne disease that has hit Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, two of India's most populated states, is spreading. More deaths of AES patients, mostly children from poor families,
Seven more children died of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur and Patna districts of Bihar, taking the state's death toll to 150 in the past month. State health officials said they had identified 10 districts
According to health officials, some 69 children have died in Muzaffarpur, 10 in Gaya and 42 in Patna due to AES. Encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease, claimed nearly 150 lives in Muzaffarpur and Gaya districts last year. A
Finally the mystery disease has a name. The disease that has killed more than 100 children across three districts of Bihar in the past fortnight has been identified as acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), the government has
The Bihar state government has urged the centre to declare a mysterious disease that has killed 102 children an epidemic, Health Minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey said. Following the deaths of children in Muzaffarpur, Gaya and