Eye-flu to stomach ailments: Major cities grappling with monsoon illnesses

Mumbai doctors say that in the last one or two weeks there has been a 20-25 per cent surge in such cases, and most of the patients are children

Major cities in India are grappling with heavy rains and rising infections – ‘eye-flu’ or conjunctivitis, stomach ailments, vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue have seen a significant surge in recent weeks.

After Delhi, which was reporting hundreds of conjunctivitis cases daily, now financial capital Mumbai has seen a 20-25 percent surge in cases of what is commonly being called the ‘pink eye’.  News agency ANI reported this week that the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi alone was getting at least 100 cases of conjunctivitis everyday. This viral infection typically coincides with the flu season.

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