With sudden rise, Mumbai sees highest dengue cases in 2014

With a 26-year old woman succumbing to dengue in Mumbai on Wednesday, the death toll has now officially reached 10 in the city. Nisha Chavan is the fourth to succumb to dengue this week in the city, reports The Times of India. [caption id=“attachment_1791207” align=“alignleft” width=“380” class=" “]  Representational Image. IBNLive[/caption] To curb the fast spreading disease, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is taking several steps. In Mumbai, 13,247 residents have been sent notices for not taking the required measures to prevent their homes from become breeding grounds for the aedes aegypti mosquitoes, as reported by Mumbai Mirror. According to a DNA report, the BMC conducted a survey of 7 lakh houses in Mumbai and suburbs. The additional municipal commissioner (health) Sanjay Deshmukh was quoted in the report saying,“We are slapping notices and collecting fine from housing societies/commercial establishments where we spot aedes mosquito breeding sites.” According to the same report, BMC has till now collected Rs 23 lakh as a fine and has also taken around 344 housing societies to court. Here is a info-graphic on the key facts related to the disease this year.