Published Date: 2012-07-14 09:01:08
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Japanese encephalitis & other - India (11): (UP)
Archive Number: 20120714.1201337

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS AND OTHER - INDIA (11): (UTTAR PRADESH)
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Date: Thu 12 Jul 2012
Source: Business Standard [edited]
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/minor-diesencephalitis-in-gorakhpur-toll-129/31540/

An 11-year-old boy today succumbed to encephalitis at BRD Medical College hospital here taking this year's toll due to the viral disease in Eastern Uttar Pradesh to 129. As many as 11 patients, suffering from suspected encephalitis, were admitted to the hospital during past 24 hours, a senior health official said.

A total of 658 encephalitis patients were admitted in different government hospitals of Gorakhpur and Basti division this year, of whom 129 died, officials said. The cases have been coming from 7 districts of Gorakhpur-Basti divisions, Bihar and Nepal.

At least 90 per cent of the cases were reported to be of acute encephalitis syndrome which is caused by the viruses present in contaminated water, while rest 10 per cent cases were of Japanease encephalitis [virus infections] caused by mosquito bite, additional director health, Diwakar Prasad said.

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[Encephalitis cases continue to occur in northeastern India and Nepal. Although there is no explicit diagnosis of the viruses associated with contanminated water, that does suggest enteroviruses as the main etiologic agents involved in these cases, with just 10 per cent due to infection with Japanese encephalitis virus.

A HealthMap/Promed-mail interactive map showing the location of Uttar Pradesh state can be accessed at http://healthmap.org/r/01r4. - Mod.TY]

See Also

Japanese encephalitis & other - India (10): (AS) 20120712.1199565
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (09): (Assam) 20120701.1186667
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (08) (BI) comment, RFI 20120630.1185855
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (07): (BI) 20120629.1184898
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (06): (BI, UP) 20120616.1170331
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (05): (BI) 20120613.1166861
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (04): (BI), RFI 20120612.1165900
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (03): (BI) RFI 20120607.1159903
Japanese encephalitis & other - India (02): (UP) 20120606.1158514
Japanese encephalitis & other - India: (BI) 20120604.1155306
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