Central Hawke’s Bay farmer Steve Wyn-Harris was absolutely flattened when he contracted leptospirosis.
“I felt like I’d been run over by a herd of cattle,”
As per city doctors, while cases of leptospirosis are relatively less now, dengue and malaria are surging. BMC statistics released on Tuesday showed a rise in both malaria and dengue cases in August. There were 959 reported cases of malaria, an increase from 721 in July and 676 in June. Similarly, dengue cases rose to 742, from 685 in July and 353 in June. Leptospirosis cases have dropped from 413 in July to 265 in August.