What diseases are common during the monsoon?

The rainy season brings several health risks:

• Mosquito-borne diseases: dengue, malaria and chikungunya.
• Water-borne diseases: typhoid, cholera, hepatitis A and diarrhoea.
• Leptospirosis, spread through contact with floodwater contaminated by animal urine.
• Colds, flu and fungal skin infections.

Prevention includes drinking boiled or filtered water, eating freshly cooked food, avoiding wading through floodwater (or washing well and seeing a doctor if you do and have cuts), preventing mosquito breeding, and keeping skin and feet dry. See a doctor for persistent fever.