Via Times of India :
" MUMBAI : Dengue and leptospirosis have claimed their first victims of the season. A 25-year-old Mulund resident succumbed to complications arising out of a dengue infection on Friday, while a 25-year-old Mankhurd resident died of leptospirosis on Saturday.
While the return of swine flu in June took centrestage in public health circles, other pestilences seem to steadily be on the rise with a corresponding rise in rainfall. In the first four days of July itself, 370 patients of malaria have been admitted to various civic hospitals.
Another 844 patients with fever, 373 with gastroenteritis, nine cases of leptospirosis and seven with dengue have been reported. (In June, there were five deaths and 1,748 tested positive for malaria).
The dengue patient, a woman living in Mulund (E), was admitted in Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central on Thursday evening, she died because of complications by the following afternoon. According to Dr Daksha Shah, head of the BMC's epidemiology cell, this is possibly the first dengue death of the year.
`There was another death a few months ago but it was only a case of suspected dengue that couldn't be established,'' she said."
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