MoS for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that as many as 872 cases of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) were reported in Bihar in the year 2019.

176 died in Bihar due to Acute Encephalitis this year, 872 cases reported

A ban has been imposed on the practice of disposing unclaimed bodies at Bihar's Sri Krishna Medical College and Hosptial (SKMCH), which is battling with cases of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), news agency ANI reported.

Bihar: SSP Manoj Kumar imposes ban on disposing unclaimed bodies at SKMCH hospital

"We all know poverty and malnourishment are some key reasons behind children's deaths but no one will talk officially as it is a very sensitive matter." A senior doctor at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital tries to find reasons as to why Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) has devastated so many families in north Bihar's district of Muzaffarpur in a matter of three weeks -- over 125 children have succumbed to the disease till Saturday.

Bihar: At AES epicentre, experts count reasons, families rue - 'Poverty, malnutrition and lack of awareness'

Chief Judicial Magistrate, Suryakant Tiwari of Bihar' Muzaffarpur district ordered an investigation against Union Health Minister Harshvardhan and Bihar health Minister Mangal Pandey on Monday in a case filed earlier against them alleging negligence leading to the death of over hundred children due to encephalitis outbreak.

Bihar encephalitis deaths: Harsh Vardhan, Mangal Pandey face inquiry over negligence

Families in villages of India's eastern Bihar state flee to safer places as a wave of death swept, claiming more than a hundred lives.

Families in Bihar flee villages as brain fever unleashes mayhem