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LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Japanese encephalitis has claimed another 25 lives in India, raising the death toll in South Asia to 1,243 over the last six months, but doctors said new infections were falling as monsoon rains eased and there were fewer puddles for disease-carrying mosquitos to breed in.
About 400 people, mostly children, were being treated for the disease in various hospital across Uttar Pradesh, the worst hit Indian state where at least 907 deaths have been reported in the region's worst outbreak in decades, said Vijay Shankar Nigam, who heads the state's communicable disease department.
Another 65 people have died in eastern Bihar state and 271 in neighboring Nepal, authorities said.
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