PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus update – Asia (03): India (MH)

Hantavirus — India
While the municipal health department has denied the incidence of [infections with a] hantavirus, a rare but deadly virus [clinically] similar to the leptospirosis pathogen, in Mumbai, a private diagnostic laboratory in the city that tested blood samples for the presence of the virus found 14 positive cases in the past 1.5 years.
On 4 Aug [2015], the Hindustan Times reported that the blood sample from a Kurla resident who was admitted to private hospital in Ghatkopar in July 2015 indicated