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... 

The killer disease is encephalitis, says expert: but yet to determine whether viral or Japanese type Muzaffarpur: according to the latest reports, the mysterious disease that took a number of lives of children in Muzzafarpur district has finally been diagnosed as encephalitis.  even as the virus claimed three more lives, taking the toll to 36. The Central team that collected blood samples of the patients to identify the disease said it was clinically diagnosed that the children were suffering from encephalitis. Dr I P Choudhary, member of the Central team, told reporters ‘We can say the...