Encephelitis in Northern India
Encephelitis, a mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India.
The disease has already killed at least 118 children this year, and authorities fear the death toll could exceed 1,000.
The children who survive often cannot communicate because of brain damage and stare listlessly, unable to recognize friends they played with just months before.
Some are so severely disabled that their impoverished parents are told to abandon them
Many families have taken out crushing loans for treatment.
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