Muzaffarpur disease death toll reaches 47: time to declare it an epidemic? Muzaffarpur: according to latest reports, there is now a good possibility that the Bihar government will declare the yet unidentified killer disease in Muzaffarpur an epidemic. The latest death toll figures from the mysterious disease reached 47 on Sunday. Six deaths have been reported during the last 48 hours, including five at K D Kejriwal Maternity Hospital. It is reported that the National Institute of Virology, Pune, and Rajendra Memorial Research Institute, Patna, 24 blood and cerebral spinal fluid samples have...