80,000 cases of malaria in Mumbai in the past 12 months

[Ronan Kelly]

Mumbai is state's malaria capital
Sumitra Deb Roy , TNN | Apr 20, 2011, 12.51am IST

|BMCMUMBAI: Mumbai's ignominious reputation as the state's malaria capital got cemented further as new figures revealed that the city registered nearly 55% of Maharashtra's 1.38 lakh positive cases in 2010-11, pushing it into the league of the country's worst affected states.

Nearly 80,000 cases in Greater Mumbai tested positive for malaria between April 2010 and March 2011, according to statistics recently compiled by the Maharashtra government. This was roughly six times the number recorded in second-worst Gadchiroli.

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In the last three months alone, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the city recorded over 12,000 malaria cases and eight deaths.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...tates-malaria-capital/articleshow/8031918.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: 80,000 cases of malaria in Mumbai in the past 12 months

Another excerpt from above report;

The picture looks direr when fatalities are considered. Malaria claimed 190 lives in Maharashtra in 2010, which was only marginally less than the 214 recorded deaths in worst ranked Orissa. Here too, Mumbai played a major role. Of the 190 deaths, 129 occurred in the city.