Cipla launches generic drug to treat H1N1
Indian drug major Cipla has launched generic versions of anti-flu drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir in the local market to treat the H1N1 influenza, which is spreading across the globe and in India.
Indian drug major Cipla has launched generic versions of anti-flu drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir in the local market to treat the H1N1 influenza, which is spreading across the globe and in India.
Rajkot/Gandhidham: Two more persons succumbed to the H1N1 pandemic in Saurashtra-Kutch region in the past 24 hours. With these deaths, the toll has risen to 43 in the state.
ROURKELA: The mild form of H1N1 virus seems to be gripping newer areas with nearly 100 villagers of Tileimunda in Rajgangpur block showing influenza-like symptoms. However, underplaying the incident, doctors attributed the scare to
THE race among Indian pharma companies engaged in swine flu vaccine development may soon throw up a winner just when the pandemic enters a critical stage with the onset of winter.
BHUBANESAR / ROURKELA: There are two baffling facts about the way the H1N1 virus has cut loose in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district, none of which has actually been attended to by the health administration as yet.
REEDA Shaikh's house is lonely and silent, as if death still lurks in all corners. Both her sisters are not allowed to go own to play and have only recently joined school. The Country's first victim of swine u, Reeda died on August 3 and it seems as if a curse fell n the city that saw 100 deaths in three months.
Sri Lanka's Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry today confirmed that the death of 16-year old boy in Kandy was due to the complications from the Influenza A-H1N1 commonly known as Swine Flu. This is the first death reported in Sri Lanka due to the H1N1 since the first H1N1 flu case was reported on June 16. Over 100 patients have been detected with the flu since then.
BHUBANESWAR: Intriguing as it may sound, the H1N1 virus has unleashed itself in a remote pocket of tribal district of Sundargarh with little or no known exposure to outside world.
Tardy response by govt & cool weather allow the virus to spread rapidly Never before in Pune has a sneeze in a crowded place triggered so much panic and anxiety. Reason: swine flu has caused 100 deaths so far in the city in just over three months since 14-year-old schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh became the country
Mohini Santosh Undre, 28, of Manjri in Haveli taluka died at 4.30 am at the Noble Hospital in Hadapsar. Doctors who treated Undre said she had tested positive for H1N1, and was suffering from bilateral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Tests have confirmed the flu spreading in Parbat and Baglung since last two weeks are mostly swine flu, Nagarik daily reported quoting health officials. Nine out of 12 samples collected from Kushma bazaar have tested positive to Pandemic Influenza H1N1. Five of them were army men working at Naya Bhairavi Dal Battalion based in Kushma Bazaar, district headquarters of Parbat.
Even as India prepares to introduce an indigenous swine flu vaccine in the market, experts have pointed out that the necessary precautions for protection from the H1N1 virus need to be taken even after getting the flu shot, as the vaccine takes two weeks to develop immunity against the virus.
Pune Two persons died of H1N1 at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital in Pimpri, taking the death toll to 99 in Pune district. On Tuesday, Navnath Thombre from Chakan in Khed taluka died at YCM hospital, Pimpri. Hospital authorities said he had been brought to the hospital on October 30 and was on ventilator since. The 29-year-old died on Tuesday.
Even as the US has declared swine flu a
BHUBANESWAR: With H1N1 gripping a tribal residential school in a remote part of Sundargarh, the Health administration was clueless as to how the inmates contracted the virus. The possibility of a community spread of the disease loomed large.
New Delhi: Five months after the first case of H1N1 influenza was reported in India, the panic surrounding it has subsided. Till a month back, close to 100 new cases were being confirmed every day while at present the number is around 10-12. Experts feared the
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: This was the last thing that the Orissa government needed. Swine flu scare which has so far been limited to urban centres of the State has now surfaced in rural region.
The swine flu pandemic Confronted with an unrelenting spread of the H1N1 virus in the urban, semi-urban and rural areas in and around Pune which claimed its first Swine flu fatality on August 3, the state health authorities are eagerly awaiting the findings of a research undertaken by National Institute of Virology (NIV) here on herd immunity.
The swine flu pandemic The delayed NIV (National Institute of Virology) test reports confirming the infection were received yesterday, hospital authorities said.
The second wave is upon us, but even official advice about the 2009 H1N1 pandemic is sometimes wrong. New Scientist sorts fact from fantasy.