Over 100 kids Believed Dead of 'Mysterious' Disease in India

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Over 100 kids Believed Dead of 'Mysterious' Disease in India

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Over 100 children are believed to have died due a "mysterious" disease in Saharanpur and adjoining areas in north India's Uttar Pradesh in the past four-five days, a senior district health official said Saturday.

However, reports quoting official sources in Lucknow put the death toll at 42. Teams of doctors from Delhi and Lucknow have reached Saharanpur to investigate the disease-causing agent and the nature of the disease, Saharanpur Chief Medical Officer Ghanshyam Singh told local media.

He said that reports of deaths of children from various hospitals in the district and neighboring areas of Baghpat district have been received and the toll could have crossed 100.

The teams have collected blood samples, he said, adding that the children who have succumbed to the disease are from both the city and rural areas.

The Director General of Health Office in Lucknow said that as symptoms of dengue, cerebral malaria and Japanese encephalitis aresimilar, it could not be said that disease was encephalitis, the Press Trust of India reported.

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