4 more infant deaths reported
Four more infant deaths have been reported from Attappady, taking the death toll of the tribal children, allegedly due to malnutrition, to 33 in the last 15 months.
Three babies have died from whooping cough in October in one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in the last twenty years, taking the number of deaths for babies under three months to a worrying 13 deaths this year.