India, State of Bihar, , Muzaffarpur !!! WARNING !!! Description: A festering unidentified disease, provisionally referred to as acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), has claimed the lives of 21 children in Muzaffarpur district of north Bihar. With three more children having succumbed to the disease in the past 24 hours, the death roll has climbed to 21 since the first such case this year was reported in last week of April?h, said Muzaffarpur civil surgeon Dr Gyan Bhushan. ?KajalKumari ( 6 ) o f Mustafapur breathed her last at the Sri Krishna medical college and hospital (SKMCH), while Anuradha (2) and Ramita Kumari (4) died at Kejriwal Matri Sadan (KMS)?h, Dr Bhushan said Friday about the latest deaths. The civil surgeon-cum-health department spokesman said six new patients had been admitted to different government hospitals and private nursing homes of Muzaffarpur over the past 24 hours.rnrn?Altogether 76 patients afflicted by AES are being treated at government hospitals and private nursing homes,?h he added. This ?ekiller?f disease, officials recalled, had claimed the lives of 264 children last year. ?More than 2,000 children have been fallen prey to this disease in last two decades. Yet, till date, experts are clueless about what the disease really is and why it breaks out during the May-June period every year?h, said Dr Arun Shah, a leading medical practitioner of Muzaffarpur. Doctors treating AES patients said the most common symptoms they showed were onset of high fever, headache, convulsions and, sometimes, seizures. Officials have insisted it was not ?eJapanese encepalitis?f. According to Dr Braj Mohan, head of SKMCH?fs paediatrics department, numerous teams of experts had visited different parts of north Bihar to collect saliva samples and blood serum of the affected children. But, even the scientists of the national institute of virology of Pune, who visited and collected samples from various places of north Bihar failed to ascertain the exact cause of the affliction,? said Dr Mohan.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:14:55 +0000
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