Deborah Grey, Mumbai: The rains in Mumbai haven’t stopped owing to which cases of viral fever are on the rise. And with Ganapati immersions coming up things could get worse.

Thirty-eight-year-old Prakash Jalgaonkar is the latest victim of viral fever and four-year-old Isha and her two-year-old sister, Purva from Mumbai's Worli area have been busy nursing their father back to health. "I have fever and a bad headache.

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I can't feel my legs and can't stand up straight,” says Prakash. Cases like that of Prakash’s are on the rise with Mumbai's KEM hospital alone seeing 30 to 40 new cases everyday.

"The common symptoms include high fever, head and body ache and weakness specially in lower body,” says Dean, KEM Hospital, Dr ME Yeolekar Dr Yeolekar is worried that viral infections could spread even more in the ongoing festive season.

"During festivals there is mass accumulation of people so viral infection particularly of the respiratory tract could spread through droplet infection when many people have gathered together,” says Dr Yeolekar.

Soon it will be time to bid Lord Ganapati goodbye and if you are not careful you could contract a viral infection when you take your idol out for Visarjan.

Simple measures like using disposable tissue papers and covering your nose and mouth with a handkerchief or scarf could go a long way in protecting yourself against infectious diseases.