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Lepto scare in Mumbai: 12 patients die in a week
Malathy Iyer,TNN | Jul 8, 2015, 01.42 AM IST
MUMBAI: Twelve Mumbaikars succumbed to leptospirosis within the last seven days, civic officials said on Tuesday. Most of the victims, including a 12-year-old girl, lived between Goregaon and Dahisar and were under 30 years of age.
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection that spreads through flooded or stagnant water contaminated with urine of infected rats, dogs or horses. It was the largest monsoon killer in 2005?the year of the 26/7 deluge?as well as in 2007 when thousands were affected and 66 and 79 died, respectively.
What has shocked experts about this year's figure is the high death rate: 12 of the 21 who tested positive for the disease have died between July 1 and 7 in various municipal hospitals. BMC officials pegged this 57% death rate to the delay among the patients in seeking treatment...
Lepto scare in Mumbai: 12 patients die in a week
Malathy Iyer,TNN | Jul 8, 2015, 01.42 AM IST
MUMBAI: Twelve Mumbaikars succumbed to leptospirosis within the last seven days, civic officials said on Tuesday. Most of the victims, including a 12-year-old girl, lived between Goregaon and Dahisar and were under 30 years of age.
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection that spreads through flooded or stagnant water contaminated with urine of infected rats, dogs or horses. It was the largest monsoon killer in 2005?the year of the 26/7 deluge?as well as in 2007 when thousands were affected and 66 and 79 died, respectively.
What has shocked experts about this year's figure is the high death rate: 12 of the 21 who tested positive for the disease have died between July 1 and 7 in various municipal hospitals. BMC officials pegged this 57% death rate to the delay among the patients in seeking treatment...
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