Japanese Encephalitis: Toll reaches 9 in UP
feature, Health 14:35
The vector-borne disease has so far claimed nine lives, mostly of the children.
The disease spreads its jaws each year with the onset of monsoon in eastern parts of the state including the districts of Deoria, Kushinagar, Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur and Sant Kabirnagar.
So far, as many as 121 people are receiving treatment at Baba Raghav Das medical college.
The disease has claimed thousands of lives in the past few decades.
Every year the government starts vaccination drive to curb the vector-borne disease.
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