Health activists say the government is using the report to divert attention from its failures.
Ninety seven children have died in the district hospital of Malkangiri in southern Odisha since September. Based on the clinical symptoms of high fever and seizures, doctors suspected the children had died of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, or brain inflammation, caused by the Japanese Encephalitis virus.
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome is a group of conditions that affect the brain and can be triggered by a range of agents including bacterial and viral infections.
Of the 97 children, the blood samples of 77 were tested in a laboratory in the state capital Bhubaneswar. Antibodies to the Japanese Encephalitis virus were found in the blood samples of 33 children.
What about the other children who died? What had caused their deaths?
A team of researchers appointed by the state government to investigate these deaths believes they may have resulted from the consumption of anthroquinone, a toxin found in the bean-like seeds of a wild plant called bada chakunda.
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