‘No litchi link to kids’ deaths in Bihar’

Almost half of children who died due to acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur in mid-2019 had no history of litchi consumption, whereas majority of the rest were less than two years’ old and therefore not quite able to eat the fruit, preliminary studies have concluded ruling out litchi toxins as the cause of those deaths.

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