India, Aug. 5 -- Delhi is seeing a rise in monsoon-related illnesses, especially typhoid and cholera, according to city doctors, who said that people should take preventive measures and those at higher risk should consider getting vaccinated against typhoid.

The Fortis Memorial Research Institute said that the hospital has seen a spike in typhoid cases among patients visiting the OPD in the past couple of weeks, said Dr Neha Rastogi Panda, consultant, infectious diseases at the hospital.

"Usually we get one or two typhoid cases in a month, but with the monsoon onset that has increased to almost 7-8 typhoid cases in a week at our hospital. Usually every year, we see more cases in mid-August, but this time cases have started coming earlie...