Mumbai: A seven-year-old boy from Dharavi and a 24-year-old man from Kandivali have died of dengue taking the toll of the mosquito-borne disease to 14 this year. According to civic officials, the deaths were reported on October 1 and October 11, but confirmed by the death audit committee this week.

The minor had high grade fever and body ache for which he took treatment from a local doctor. His fever subsided momentarily but it came back within three days. The patient was then admitted to a public hospital but he went into a multi-organ failure and dengue haemorrhagic shock.

The second patient, a laundry worker by profession, had high grade fever and episodes of vomiting around seven days before admission to a public hospital. Doctors said the patient had altered sensorium and temporary loss of consciousness before hospitalisation as well. He died within a day of being hospitalised due to a pulmonary hemorrhage and acute kidney injury due to dengue. Civic officials said he also had a travel history to Uttar Pradesh.

In October, 3,875 patients with dengue like symptoms were admitted to various city hospitals. The number was much less in October 2017 when 3,293 patients were hospitalised. While these figures are mostly collated from public hospitals, the number is much more if private medical set-ups are taken into account.

H1N1 cases

The city has also recorded 17 cases of H1N1 this year so far, of which 16 were recorded in October and one case was in September. “These cases are scattered and without any clustering in a particular area. There is also no difference between the male and female ratio,” a civic official said. The swine flu virus has remained dormant in the city even as many cases and deaths were recorded in the rest of the State. H1N1 is a respiratory disease caused by Type A influenza known as H1N1 (A). The airborne infection has killed nearly 300 people in Maharashtra this year and infected close to 2,000 people.