Bihar: Children Complain of Lasting Symptoms After Recovery from AES
Last year, a total of 598 children in Bihar got the chamki fever.
Children showing symptoms of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) being treated at a hospital in Muzaffarpur, June 15, 2019. Photo: PTI
Patna: Some of the children in Bihar who recovered from
chamki fever â the local name for acute encephalitis syndrome â have developed symptoms of ‘post-encephalitis syndrome’, the impact of which experts say could last a lifetime.
Last year, 598 children in Bihar got
chamki fever, of whom 130 passed away while the rest recovered. When this reporter contacted the families of some of these children, they said that after recovering from the fever, their children have developed problems indicative of mental and physical distress, including fatigue and weight loss.