Assam floods recede amid encephalitis outbreak

July 22, 2011 17:03

In Assam, flood waters are receding and the situation arising out of the deluge in nine districts had improved. However, the floods have led to an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that about 6 lakh people had been affected and three dead in the floods, besides 15,942 heactres of cropland submerged in the nine districts.

A total 29 others have so far died of Japanese encephalitis, while malaria was taking an endemic form claiming 86 lives.

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