Swine flu alert in TN
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS Woman tests positive in Kovai and the health dept asks pvt hospitals to step up screening
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS Woman tests positive in Kovai and the health dept asks pvt hospitals to step up screening
The State Government will launch a H1N1 flu vaccination drive on May 5 that will cover 32,000 doctors, nurses, paramedics and journalists especially those who cover health issues, in the first phase of the drive. This was announced by Health and GDD Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday.
Pune More than two weeks after nearly 34,000 doses of the imported swine flu vaccine were procured by the state, the vaccination record among the high-risk population of doctors and paramedical workers in Pune and other districts continues to be dismal.
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6 suffering from fever test positive With the throat swab samples of people suffering from a
Bhopal: One person succumbed to deadly HIN1 virus here, taking the toll due to swine flu to 35 in Madhya Pradesh, health officials said on Wednesday.
The World Health Organisation admitted that the global swine flu scare was unnecessarily exaggerated as alleged by the international community. Replying to the query whether swine flu was unnecessarily exaggerated, regional director of the WHO, Dr Samlee Pilanbangchang said,
A TOP official of the World Health Organization on Tu esday admitted that the global swine flu scare was unnecessarily exaggerated, an allegation the international body faced when the killer disease claimed thousands of lives in several countries including India.
Hyderabad, March 28: The death of a 22-year-old in Gandhi Hospital on Friday has put the city on swine flu alert again. This is the first swine flu death reported this year. Reddy Basha, a Kurnool resident suffering from multi-organ problems, was admitted to Gandhi Hospital a few days ago where he was diagnosed to have swine flu.
If numbers are to be believed, the incidence of deadly H1N1 virus in India seems to be dropping. Health Ministry statistics have lately shown a marked fall in the number of swine flu deaths and infections in India.
NEW DELHI: The Capital seems to have bid a very welcome good bye to swine flu with the State Health Department stating that almost no cases of the flu are being reported now. Breathing easy after having battled swine flu for several months, the city seems to have developed resistance to the swine flu virus claim medical experts.
JAJPUR: A 20-year-old girl from Binjharpur in Jajpur district reportedly died of swine flu on Sunday. District health authorities confirmed the death, saying the girl
K.S. Jacob Indian reality calls for regional research, local solutions and national perspectives rather than subservience to international approaches, which do not prioritise India's needs.
T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a diagnostic kit that can detect A(H1N1) virus in an hour. The kit does not need sophisticated instruments and can be used in villages where electricity is not available. It just costs Rs.1,500.
Very few doctors, paramedics take shots on first day no swine flu cases reported in last two months The swine flu scare might have died down in the region in the last two months, but the H1N1 virus refuses to leave the city medicos.
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The Union health ministry has kickstarted the process of vaccinating healthcare workers across the country against swine flu. According to officials in the ministry, the vaccines procured from international pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteurs is being distributed to the states from Mumbai and Delhi.
Confirmed to be safe for human use by the Drug Controller General of India, the first consignment of imported H1N1 vaccine manufactured by French firm Sanofi Pasteur was dispatched from Delhi to various states on Tuesday.
The UT Health department has received 10,800 doses of HINI vaccine, which would be administered on the frontline health workers in the city hospitals in the next few days. Nodal officer Dr G C Bansal said the vaccine Panenza, which they received from the Central government on Tuesday, would be sent to the three city hospitals to be used on doctors and paramedic staff.