A PRELIMINARY investigation into the deaths of seven children in the last three weeks in Chilli village, over 20 km from Palwal, has indicated that the “probable cause of the outbreak could be the unhygienic conditions and illegal drinking water pipe connections that led to contamination of drinking water,” the Haryana government said on Wednesday.
Most of the children had shown similar symptoms — high fever, rash, vomiting, low platelet count – and died within three-four days of reporting a fever.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Rajeev Arora said the outbreak started on September 9. “The rapid response team visited the affected areas on September 12, and a household survey was done wherever deaths were reported,” he said.
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If it wasn’t enough that Delhi air is among the world’s most polluted, a new study has shown that the city’s tap water is the most unsafe among 21 state capitals.
The National capital is at the very bottom of the list, in a ranking based on tap water quality released by the Bureau of Indian Standards ( BIS) on Tuesday.
It is among 13 cities including Kolkata, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Lucknow where all tested samples failed to meet the BIS norms for piped drinking water.
Infact Mumbai is the only, where all samples of tap water met all the tested parameters under the Indian Standard 10500 : 2012 ( specification for drinking water ) so far
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