Guwahati: The ongoing Encephalitis outbreak in Assam has continued to claim more victims with 92 patients dead at the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh district.

Dr Nandeta Choudhury, principal of the AMCH, told sources here on August 5 from Dibrugarh that since August 3, 16 more Encephalitis patients had been admitted to her hospital raising the number affected to 288 in the last one month.

Dr Choudhury said most of the victims of the fatal disease were from the upper Assam districts of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Golghat, besides from neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.

The Health Department sources here appreciated the prompt action of the AMCH in attending to those affected by Encephalitis, thereby preventing the disease from claiming more lives.

Meanwhile, the government was taking preventive measures such as spraying of DDT, fogging and awareness campaigns for keeping pigs away from dwelling houses as the animals were vehicles for transmission of Encephalitis to humans.

PTI