After fearing Avian flu, India struggles with Encephalitis outbreak

... Close to a 100 children have succumbed to the deadly Japanese encephalitis over 15 days in the Northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with most of the cases being reported in just one town Gorakhpur, where people from surrounding villages come for medical care. The disease that is caused by mosquito bites, affects the brain with fatal results in the absence of timely treatment. ...