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ALISTAIR BELL MEXICO CITY May 4 Mexico said it was winning the battle against a deadly new strain of flu as it stayed largely shut for business and cases dropped, but global health officials hinted a pandemic was still likely.
Health authorities on Monday said five persons, including three in the national capital, have been kept under observation for the H1N1 virus in the country. The death toll worldwide due to the virus has risen to 26. Health officials claimed a total of 45,000 passengers have been screened across all airports which receive international passengers till Monday morning.
Langrin youth body to continue anti-uranium campaign SHILLONG: Continuing his media bashing, Governor RS Mooshahary on Monday allegedly "threw" newspaper clippings submitted by a youth association on the public hearing held at Nangbah-Jynrin where the majority of the participants had opposed the proposed uranium project in the State.
COIMBATORE: Residents of some colonies along Nanjundapuram Road in the city have planned a fast and demonstration in the city on May 5 to oppose the sewage treatment plant that the Coimbatore Corporation is establishing on 6.2 acres it owns. The Corporation already has a sewage pumping station on this site.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico has moved past the peak of an H1N1 flu epidemic and is in the "phase of descent," the government said on Sunday, although world health officials still say the unpredictable virus could become a pandemic.
Swine flu has become widespread in the United States, with 226 cases in 30 states and more expected to turn up in additional states in the next few days, federal health officials said Sunday.
The government has set up check posts at air, river and land ports as pre-cautionary measurers to prevent Swine Flu, a respiratory disease caused by H1N1 virus. This was stated at a meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Health and Family Welfare held at Sangsad Bhaban yesterday with Committee Chairman Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim in the chair.
Humans have it. Pigs don't. At least not yet, and U.S. pork producers are doing everything they can to make sure that the new H1N1 virus, known around the world as the "swine flu," stays out of their herds.
When millions of people started dying around the world in 1918, doctors and scientists hadn't a clue what was happening. As the epidemic spread, people blamed it on everything from tiny plants to old dusty books. Then again, they couldn't have known because the influenza virus was only identified in 1933, by a British research team. But how times have changed.
Mohali: For the first time in Punjab, a state-of-the-art laboratory for surveillance of communicable diseases is being set up in the Civil Hospital here. The directions to start the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) laboratory were issued by the Punjab government and this laboratory will be the nodal centre for tests and analysis for all government hospitals in the state.
