Mumbai: After lying dormant for weeks, dengue claimed an IT student from Vakola on Sunday, making him the 12th casualty of this year.

But Dengue Mortality Rate Worries Docs

Mumbai: The city has been reeling from the onslaught of dengue in the last three months but it is malaria that has turned out to be the bigger killer this year. While malaria claimed 17 lives in the four monsoon months, 12 people died of dengue. But doctors are more worried about dengue because of its high mortality rate.

Amidstcries of a dengue epidemic in Delhi, Mumbai also recorded its highest incidence in September alone with more than 168 cases.

The H1N1 influenza has emerged as the biggest killer in Maharashtra this year cl-a-i-ming three times the number of lives taken by dengue and malaria put together, and six times if compared individ

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The city’s first suspected Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-Cov) case has highlighted how its sole isolation facility needs some serious beefing up.

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The city continues to reel under an onslaught of water- and vectorborne diseases despite a brief lull in rainfall over the past week. Over 500 people had to be hospitalized with gastroenteritis and malaria over the duration of a week.

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