Japanese Encephalitis toll at 48

Gorakhpur, Aug 11 (UNI) The toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Uttar Pradesh today reached 48 with the death of one more child.

Joint director health D P Mishra said the inflow of JE patients continued unabated at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College here.

Since April this year, a total of 336 people -- including 7 fresh cases -- sufferring from JE have been admitted at the medical college, of which 52 are still under treatment.

The patients belong to Gorakhpur, Deoria, Maharajganj, Sant Kabirnagar, Kushinagar, Basti, Siddharthnagar, Azamgarh, Gonda and Balrampur district of UP. Some cases also pertain to the adjoining districts of Bihar.

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