印度媒体29日报道，在过去的几个月中，脑炎在印度北方邦肆虐，导致250多人死亡。请看报道：

The death toll¹ from an encephalitis outbreak in northern India passed 250 over the weekend, and the mosquito-borne disease showed little sign of abating², a government official said Monday.

Officials reported 41 new deaths, raising the three-week death toll to 253.

The majority of the dead are children. Some 300 people have been hospitalized, many of them in serious condition, D. P. Mishra, joint³ director of Uttar Pradesh state health services, told The Associated Press.

文中的"death toll"意思是"死亡人数"，"toll" refers to suffering, deaths or damage，例如：Independent sources say that the civilian⁴ death roll runs into thousands.（独立消息人士说平民死亡人数达数千。）

If something takes a toll/exacts a toll, it causes suffering, death or damage.（造成损失），如：The deepening recession has also taken its toll in the south of the country, where unemployment is rife⁵.（经济不景气的状况越演越烈同样也给国家南部造成了损害，在那里失业盛行。）