Leptospirosis -- India
The extended rain spell over the city has claimed 2 lives in the past 5 days, a health report released by the civic authorities late on Monday [3 Oct 2016] showed.
A 24-year-old Kurla woman died on 29 Sep 2016 due to a brain infection along with leptospirosis.
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection that spreads through flood waters contaminated with the urine of an infected dog or rat. The woman, who lived in the Raghunath chawl of Naupada area, had given a history of wading through
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