[Assam] Will the ‘Rip Van Winkle’ Assam Health Authority wake up to the FACT that there is a vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis and start vaccinating?

[Bartta Bistar]

  18 die of Japanese encephalitis in upper Assam
http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=25419

Guwahati, Jul 19: At least 18 people, mostly children and women, have died
of Japanese encephalitis in upper Assam districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji
since the beginning of the month.

According to official sources here, 14 people died of the disease in
Lakhimpur district, where nearly 100 others have been affected.

In nearby Dhemaji district four children died of the disease even as the
district administration swung into action to take preventive measures, the
sources said.

The affected people have been admitted to civil hospitals and nursing
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The district administration is planning to depute a special team of doctors
in the two districts to prevent the disease from assuming an epidemic form,
the sources added.

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