A fear that 50 students might be exposed to HIV, led health officials to test students at Normandy High School, in St Louis, Missouri. The scare began when the St. Louis County Health Department said last week that a positive HIV infected person told health officials that as many as 50 students might be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

A five-member team of Ministry of Health arrived in Assam’s Baksa region and started its investigation following administration of measles vaccines that is suspected to have resulted into death of four infants.

The State government, however, said no to the allegations that the infants’ deaths were caused because of botched vaccines.

The government declared ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh to parent of each of the four babies, who died after receiving the vaccines in four different villages under Nimua Public Health Centre of the district.

Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, State Health Minister, said that the government was sure that deaths had not been caused by measles vaccines given to them.