Japanese Encephalitis toll at 86

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Gorakhpur, Aug 25 (UNI) The vector-borne Japanese Encephalitis (JE) continued to kill children in Eastern Uttar Pradesh with the toll reaching 86 today, following three more deaths in the last 24 hrs.

The scourge has already killed several thousands of people in the region over the last decade.

Last year, the deadly JE had killed almost 1,000 people in UP alone.

Uttar Pradesh Medical and Family Welfare joint director Dr L P Rawat told UNI that so far, 508 JE patients had come to the Baba Raghav Das Medical College here, of which 86 including six from Bihar had died.

Almost 86 patients were still convalescing in hospital.

JE patients mostly trickle in from Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Sant Kabirnagar, Deoria, Kushinagar, Basti, Siddharthnagar, Azamgarh, Gonda, Bahraich, Mau, Ballia and Balrampur districts of UP.

Gorakhpur has the dubious distiction of being the JE epicentre in the region.

The endemic afflicts eastern UP during monsoon every year and continues to take people under its jaws till the onset of winters.

UNI

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