NEW DELHI, Sept 30: Eleven people, including a medical student at India’s top hospital, have died from a strain of mosquito-borne dengue virus in New Delhi over the past fortnight, a report said on Saturday.
The student died at the country’s premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where another 14 cases of the deadly fever were reported in the past week, the Press Trust of India said.
The teenaged daughter of two doctors died earlier this week.
New Delhi health authorities said 327 cases of dengue fever had been reported in and around the capital since the start of the monsoon season in June.
The virus is transmitted to humans through bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes and causes a severe, flu-like illness.
In Asia, the mosquito mainly breeds in stagnant water in water coolers, metal drums and containers used for domestic water storage.
A dengue outbreak in Delhi claimed more than 400 lives in 1996 and more than 10,000 people contracted the virus. —AFP
