India: 648 test positive for ?killer? malaria strain in Bareilly District, Utter Pradesh

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Source: https://www.nyoooz.com/news/bareilly...alaria-strain/
Bareilly fever deaths: 648 test positive for ?killer? malaria strain
| Friday | 14th September, 2018

Bareilly: The health department has confirmed the presence of a whopping 648 positive cases of the deadly plasmodium falciparum (PF) malaria in the past six days in the district. I have not come across such a large number of PF cases in one district in about 20 years. The death toll climbed to 39 on Friday with the death of an 11-year-old boy, who had tested positive for PF malaria, in Behta Bujurg village of Majhgavan block...

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Source: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/...-just-28-61702


Fever kills 202 in Bareilly, district administration records just 28
The district hospital has one bed for every two patients suffering from fever and just two physicians to attend to them
By Jyoti Pandey
Last Updated: Friday 21 September 2018

After Gorakhpur, now Bareilly is witnessing cases of plasmodium falciparum (cerebral malaria), malaria, dengue and Japanese encephalitis. According to media reports, fever has killed 202 people in the district in the past 20 days, but district administration believes only 28 people have died due to the disease. The administration has also announced that the number of deaths will be audited. Till now, the district has already seen 3,774 cases of cerebral malaria...