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Bareilly: The toll due to fever rose to 47 in the district after a 69-year-old woman succumbed to deadly plasmodium falciparum (PF) malaria at the Military Hospital here on Sunday night. We have been distributing medicines and conducting indoor and outdoor spraying in the affected villages,” said Dr Vineet Shukla, chief medical officer. The woman was a native of Atarchedi village under Majhgavan block, the worst affected block in the district. “We have been continuously organizing camps in the affected villages to detect fever and malaria patients. However, fresh cases of PF and PV continue to be reported and around 90% are being reported only from Majhgavan block..