Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air
China has found two more cases of a new strain of bird flu and one of the victims has died, state media said on Wednesday, bringing to nine the number of cases. A 38-year old cook became ill early last
Pune: The number of swine flu deaths in Maharashtra in March this year was more than thrice the number registered in the same month last year. While nine deaths were reported last March, the figure stood
Temperature Fluctuation, Depleting Immunity Contributing Factors Pune: Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have seen a rise of 10% to 15% in swine flu cases in March. “The virus transmission earlier was not more than 2%. We have observed a sharp rise in the transmissibility of the swine flu virus since March,” NIV deputy director and senior scientist Mandeep Chadha told TOI on Monday.
Four people in East China's Jiangsu province have been confirmed as being infected with the lesser-known H7N9 bird flu, local authorities said Tuesday. Low risk for humans to contract H7N9 bird flu
H7N9 Variant, Which Has Never Been Seen In Humans Before, Infects One More Person Beijing: Two Shanghai men have died from a little-known strain of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain and a third is under treatment, Chinese official sources said on Sunday. Both the deaths took place in Shanghai in early March, according to delayed information released by health authorities.
AHMEDABAD: Around 4.30pm on October 30, 2009, a press conference was being addressed by top industrialists and bureaucrats who had returned with chief minister Narendra Modi from Russia. The press conference had just ended when this journalist got an SMS stating that Modi had been detected with swine flu. Apparently, the blood sample was broken into two and sent to Civil Hospitals in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. Both tests were positive but hardly anyone knew this was Modi's blood — the test-tubes were marked 'Rameshbhai'.
Jaipur: The state government’s efforts for providing free medicines and other initiatives in the health sector are commendable, but as far as tackling medical emergencies like swine flu is concerned, it still needs to learn a lot from other states. According to the report of the ministry of health, Gujarat is leading in swine flu deaths and Rajasthan is not too far behind. Around 288 deaths out of 445 swine flu deaths in India were reported in Rajasthan and Gujarat since January 1 this year till March 24.
Pune: Two more persons have died of swine flu, one in Pune and the other in Pimpri Chinchwad, taking the total number of deaths due to the infection in both cities to 20 since January. Of these, 13 have occurred in March. “Santosh Gawade (32), of Jawale village in Ambegaon taluka in Pune district, died of swine flu infection in KEM Hospital at 4.45 am on Thursday,” said S T Pardeshi, medical officer of health (MoH), Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).
A decade after severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, swept through Hong Kong and then around the world, the city is among the first to become worried about the emergence and spread of another, genetically
Australia - Two palliative care patients in a nursing home have died due to flu outbreak in Australia's North Queensland, local media reported on Thursday. Altogether 14 residents at the Mackay nursing
