Cerebral malaria kills 25, Central team visits Munger

Munger (Bihar), Aug 8 (PTI) A Central team Friday visited
the eastern state of Bihar to take stock of the situation in
cerebral malaria-hit Munger district even as the death toll
due to the disease rose to 25.

The four-member panel headed by joint director of Union
Health and Family Welfare Ministry Dr S N Sharma would assist
in providing medical care to the affected people, Munger
District Malaria Officer B Sahu said.

Five more children succumbed to cerebral malaria during
last two days in Kharagpur sub-division and Dharhara block in
the district, he said, adding that the disease has so far
claimed 25 lives and affected more than 1,500 others.

"Out of the 1,450 people whose serum samples were tested,
565 were positive," Sahu said. PTI COR