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With those who maintain piggeries forming a sizeable population, people sitting at the helm of affairs clearly have no inclination to attack encephalitis at its roots, simply because it would antagonise their vote bank.

Says Health Minister Jaiveer Singh, "We cannot just think of eliminating pigs; after all, so many households are dependent on them. We live in a democratic country and everyone must have the freedom to earn his livelihood."

But he added: "We are already in the process of undertaking large scale insecticide spraying and fogging in and around piggeries. Once mosquitoes are destroyed, the bulk of the problem would be over."

A concerted campaign on pigs by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had apparently helped check the disease in his state. But there seem to be no takers for it in Uttar Pradesh.

In Kanpur, an important industrial hub about 80 km from here, pigs have grown into a virtual army that often attack and injure children. However, the administration could only net around 35 out of the thousands that continue to roam around freely on the streets of the crowded town.

Even in and around the medical college in Gorakhpur, the epicentre of the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh, pigs have been thriving at the expense of the hundreds who succumb to the virus that has been striking the region every monsoon season.

Source -(IANS)
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