Japanese Encephalitis -- India
India's Supreme Court on Mon 24 Jun 2019 directed state and national authorities to file reports to the court on an encephalitis outbreak in the eastern state of Bihar this month [June 2019] in which 152 children have died.
A senior health department official in Bihar, Sanjay Kumar, said the epidemic is showing signs of slowing with no new deaths on Monday [24 Jun 2019]. The fatalities have occurred in 20 of the state's 38 districts.
The outbreak has been exacerbated by a heatwave, with
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6536300&promed&0
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