Mumbai, Nov 15 (PTI) 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 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run 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.
