India, Feb. 19 -- An awareness campaign for AES was launched in the district

A child has been diagnosed with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), the year's first, at a hospital in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on February 19, 2021, said a staff member of the paediatric ward who did not want to be named. Usually AES, locally called chamki bukhar , surfaces during summer in the flood-prone districts of north Bihar.

Akash Kumar, a two-and-half-year-old boy, was admitted in Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur with AES symptoms on February 16, 2021. He is undergoing treatment at the hospital's special AES ward.

SKMCH superintendent BS Jha, however, did not confirm the case. "For us it is a suspected AES case and it will be ...