Seventy-two case have been diagnosed as confirmed GBS cases and 20 patients are currently on ventilators, according to health department.

Maharashtra has recorded its second suspected death due to the ongoing Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) outbreak. The latest victim is a 56-year-old woman from Pune 's Kirkatwadi, Sinhagad Road, who was also suffering from oral cancer. She passed away on January 28 at Sassoon General Hospital.

One person is believed to have died in India's Maharashtra state in an outbreak of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) - a neurological disease that causes numbness, weakness and pain - and the number of cases is rising,

A 56-year-old woman from Kirkatwadi, Sinhagad Road in Pune, has become the second suspected fatality in Maharashtra’s Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) outbreak, taking the total number of cases to 127. The woman, who was also battling oral cancer, died at Sassoon General Hospital on January 28 after suffering respiratory failure with sepsis.

A 40-year-old man in Maharashtra's Solapur died due to the Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), state health minister Prakash Abitkar told ANI on Monday. It is the first death in the state due to the immunological nerve disorder.

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is rare, but most cases follow an infection with a virus or bacteria. GBS affects the nerves that control muscle movement and impacts immune system.