The mystery fever killing children in India

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Physicians in a few of the affected districts in Uttar Pradesh believe dengue could be the main cause of deaths.

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At least 50 people, mostly children, have died from fever in Uttar Pradesh in the past week

At least 50 people, mostly children, have died of the fever, and several hundred have been admitted to hospital in six districts in the eastern part of the state. None of the dead tested positive for Covid-19. "The patients, especially children, in hospitals are dying very quickly," says Dr Neeta Kulshrestha, the most senior health official of Firozabad district, where 40 people, including 32 children, have died in the past week.

A state with more than 200 million people and traditionally poor standards of sanitation, high levels of-malnutrition in children and patchy health care routinely reports such "mystery fever" cases after monsoon rains every other year.Outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis - first identified in Uttar Pradesh in 1978 - have claimed more than 6,500 lives since.

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