Measles outbreak in Mumbai: Toddler dies; 126 children infected

A one-year-old boy has died of measles in Mumbai amid the outbreak of the viral infection in the city where 126 children have contracted the disease so far this year, civic officials said on Tuesday. The boy, from Null Bazar area, was undergoing treatment at the Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli since last week and died on Monday, a BMC official said. According to doctors, “septicemia with acute renal failure with measles bronchopneumonia” was the cause of the child's death, the official said. Some parts of Mumbai have witnessed an outbreak of measles. At least 99 children have been found infected with the viral disease since September and 126 since January this year. — pti