CNN.com (excerpts): New Delhi, India - At least 435 patients, mostly children, have died this year from encephalitis in one of India's most impoverished regions, health officials said.  Most of the deaths happened between August and September, according to K P Kushwaha, Chief Pediatrician at BRD Medical College and Nehru Hospital in Uttar Pradesh state's Gorakhpur district.  Some 30 - 35 people are being diagnosed daily with the infection in Gorakhpur, he said.  The outbreaks are commo...
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