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Leptospirosis Again on the Rampage in Mumbai
October 13, 2007 at 12:52 PM
General Health News
Leptospirosis, the bacterial fever, essentially spread by creatures like rats, periodically batters the city.
But last year, only three persons had died of the bacterial disease in the corresponding period whereas the September toll this time hit 22.
A senior official told reporters Friday, "Most patients come to us (public hospitals) at such a late stage that it was impossible to save them," he said, adding that considering the huge rise, the health authorities would take steps to expedite the filling up of vacant rat-killers posts.
Another defended the administration, saying the rising toll was only a reflection of better detection. "We now have a molecular lab in the city to test leptospirosis and dont have to send cases to Port Blair for confirmation.
Leptospirosis has emerged as the great monsoon worry since 2002. After the unprecedented floods of July 2005, a leptospirosis outbreak claimed over a hundred lives and set the civic health department on a revamp drive.
Interestingly even as officials were fielding questions from the media at Mumbai, another delegation of officials of the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were closeted with the federal health ministry officials at the national capital, New Delhi over preparedness to tackle disease outbreaks.
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