Dengue suspected of killing dozens in India’s Uttar Pradesh state

At least 58 people, many of them children, have died in the worst-hit Firozabad district alone.

An outbreak of dengue fever is suspected of killing dozens of people in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh since the start of September, as authorities launch a campaign to destroy mosquito breeding grounds. Dinesh Kumar Premi, the chief medical officer in Firozabad, the most affected district in the country’s most populous state, told Reuters news agency that 58 people, many of them children, had died in his district alone, raising fears that Uttar Pradesh is in the mid of its worst dengue outbreak in years. “We are taking preventive measures and 95 health camps across the district have been operating in order to contain the spread of this fever,” Premi said.