India's lengthy monsoon season to end

14 October 2019

It’s over a month late and has been wetter than usual, but the monsoon is finally set to retreat, starting in the country’s NW, according to the India Meteorological Dept. The effects of mosquito-borne infections fuelled by the rainfall will remain for some time. This past week they have included dengue fever reports from Telangana, Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and Bihar (Patna), while it’s dengue and chikungunya in Maharashtra (Pune) and malaria in the states of Uttar Pradesh (Bareilly, Budaun) and Punjab. Scrub typhus also continues to trouble the north-central state of Himachal Pradesh (Bilaspur district) – first reported in the news this season in early August. Read more.

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