Seventy Four million persons suffer from a Type of Fever in a period of fifteen days in India

One Large Scale Annual Health Survey has been conducted in the year 2010-11 for nine States namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and Assam.  Fact Sheets for the same were released.  Here below the prevalence of this Acute Illness in these States have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons. 

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States	Fever (All Types)	Population (2011)	Estimate of Persons Suffered from any type of Fever (2011)
Chhattisgarh	5193	25545198	1326562
Madhya Pradesh	5699	72626809	4139002
Uttar Pradesh	7571	199812341	15127792
Uttarakhand	5225	10086292	527009
Odisha	6689	41974218	2807655
Rajasthan	2165	68548437	1484074
Bihar	7111	104099452	7402512
Jharkhand	3856	32988134	1272022
Assam	4978	31205576	1553414
Total of Nine States	6078	586344507	35640042

Using population estimates from Census 2011, the number of people suffered with any type of Fever during a period of fifteen days in these nine states has been estimated around 35.6 millions in these nine states for the year 2011.  This is the average effected persons by a Fever in these states of India within duration of 15 days of the year.  Occurrence of Fever in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states was to more than 22.5 million persons in a period of fifteen days. If one assumes the average prevalence rate of these nine states as the prevalence rate in India, the average number of persons affected by a fever in India would be around 73.6 millions in a period of fifteen days during a year.