A team of officers from BMC's pesticide department found aedes mosquito breeding spots in veteran actor Rishi Kapoor's Pali Hill residence in Bandra. The 62-year-old Bollywood actor is admitted in Lilavati Hospital with dengue, said doctors.

According to Lilavati Hospital sources, the actor was admitted on Tuesday.

Rajan Naringrekar, head of pesticide department in BMC, said, "We found aedes mosquito breeding spot in the feng shui plant kept in the garden. Feng shui plants are notorious spots for aedes mosquitoes to breed. We have been requesting people to ensure that the do's and don'ts are followed strictly because 85% of the breeding spots are found indoors."

With the rise in dengue cases in the city, the BMC today kick started a special drive for dengue awareness where they are using the public announcement tool to reach out to more people.

"We are requesting people not to store water or beware of feng shui, money plants, fountains in their residential premises. In our survey, we found that more than 80% of the aedes mosquito breeding sites were found in the homes of middle, upper-middle and higher class societies," said Naringrekar. Bandra is also one of the many areas in Mumbai that is seeing high incidence of dengue cases.

Meanwhile, doctors treating Kapoor said that the actor has co-infection and is found positive for malaria too. "He is stable but needs to be monitored for both the disease," said the doctor.

dna had reported how city doctors are seeing a dangerous trend in vector-borne diseases with people coming with both dengue and malaria infection. Though the number of such cases are less, doctors say that it has now become important to check for both the diseases if there is fever to avoid complications and death. Talking about severity in dengue, doctors said that it is affecting major organs this time and therefore people shouldn't neglect fever.

Dr Khusrav Bajan, intensivist at PD Hinduja Hospital, said, "There is one per cent chances for a dengue patient to get malaria and vice-versa. This year, surprisingly, we are seeing people infected with both these diseases. The numbers are few but this is something we have not seen earlier."

While dengue is caused and transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito infected with any one of the four dengue viruses, malaria is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium that is spread by the female Anopheles mosquito.

"I have already seen 4-5 cases with the co-infection. Dengue is supportive treatment and for malaria, we give anti-malarial treatment. These patients are coming with much lower white blood cell count and platelet counts and longer fever durations," said Dr Bajan.