As many as 260 children contracted symptoms of the AES and of them 100 have died and 57 others were admitted in various hospitals for treatment, he told reporters.
The remaining children were cured during treatment at the hospitals, Chaube said.
Giving the break-up, the Health Minister said that 93 children were admitted in the private Kejriwal hospital with symptoms of the AES and of them 32 died even as 24 others were recuperating there, while in the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), also located in Muzaffarpur, 16 children have died due to AES.
The death toll in the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) stood at 10, while the figure at the PMCH in Patna stood at 42, he said.
Most of the deaths due to fever and related symptoms took place as the patients were brought to hospital in critical condition since the parents took them to quacks or undertook others means to cure them, the Health Minister said.
He said that the symptoms of the AES have been identified but it required tests of various dimensions to identity the specific symptom and it was possible only at the laboratory to identity viral-related symptoms. The state government had last year requested the Centre to set up such a laboratory in Bihar.