Friday 12 March, 2010.

32 children die of mysterious disease in Western UP 

Thirty-two children have died of a mysterious disease over the last two days while several others have been admitted to various hospitals in parts of Western Uttar Pradesh, official sources said. 

Over 100 children with complaints of severe headache, fever and vomitting were brought to health-care centers and government hospitals in Meerut, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar and Garhmukteshwar districts, sources informed.

 

So far, as many as fourteen children have died in Khekra town in Baghpat district, eight in Muzaffarnagar and ten in Saharanpur, due to this disease which has symptoms similar to that of encephalitis, meningitis and cholera.

 

The disease, mostly prevalent among those residing in unhygienic conditions, is a result of inflammation of the brain membranes and patients generally vomit blood, informed S K Arora, Director of Health, Meerut Division.



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