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Risco de encefalite na India - epidemia

India encephalitis outbreak kills 400, mainly children

By Soutik BiswasBBC News, Delhi 


A doctor told the BBC that it was a "tragedy beyond imagination", with children dying every day.

The low-lying areas are prone to floods, providing a breeding ground for mosquitoes which commonly transmit the virus.



It is an unbelievable tragedy - children are dying every day”

Dr KP KushwahaPediatrician

But in the past six years, children have been dying of other forms of viral encephalitis, the exact cause of which is unclear.

One possibility is a water-borne virus present in contaminated water, doctors say.

Most of the 370 beds in the paediatrics and medicine departments at the hospital are overflowing with more than one patient to a bed, he said.

A fifth of the children who survive have to live with neurological weaknesses, doctors say. The disease is caused by contaminated water

Also, people took precautions by using mosquito nets and repellents.

But tackling other forms of viral encephalitis has proved to be tougher challenge, and controlling it will also require a vast improvement in sanitation and drinking water supply in rural areas, health officials say.

The state government disbursed millions of rupees from a federal health programme for treatment of patients at the state-run BRD Medical College in 2009.

In 2005, a virulent outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur killed 1,000 people, mostly children. This was the worst outbreak since 1978.

Posted by Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhD at 5:56 PM 


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