Leptospirosis — India
An 18 year old girl from Govandi [eastern Mumbai, Maharashtra] succumbed to complications of a leptospirosis infection at civic-run Sion Hospital on [6 Aug 2016]. She is the 5th victim this monsoon of the bacterial infection, which spreads due to walking in flood water contaminated with urine of infected animals.
In the 1st week of August [2016], 101 patients with suspected leptospirosis were admitted to various civic officials. However, only 45 patients turned out to have leptospirosis
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