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PRO/AH/EDR> Leptospirosis – India (03): (MH) fatal

Leptospirosis -- IndiaAn 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 Read more [...]