H1N1 spreads, 10 die in a day
A GRIM reality stared the nation as it watched loss of 10 lives in one day with influenza A (H1N1)spreading to new areas. The nationwide toll now stands at 44.
A GRIM reality stared the nation as it watched loss of 10 lives in one day with influenza A (H1N1)spreading to new areas. The nationwide toll now stands at 44.
The swine flu toll in Bangalore doubled to 10 on Thursday, with the death of a 36-year-old woman and the official confirmation that four more people who died at separate city hospitals over the past one week also suffered from H1N1.
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday said Ayurveda and Unani interventions could be used for increasing the immunity to fight various flu-like conditions. These could be adopted by normal healthy persons as well as those with mild symptoms such as cold, cough and body pain.
In a relief for locals living under the threat of swine flu, all the 40 throat swab samples suspected of swine-flu infection were found to be negative today, health department officials said. Swine flu scare, triggered by the detection of two cases in the State on Saturday, hit normal lives in the capital city of Aizawl with many people wearing masks on the streets since Monday.
COIMBATORE: Nine more persons have tested positive for A (H1N1) influenza in Coimbatore. These include seven girl students of a private school in the city. Already three girls of this school had tested positive and were said to have been cured. Of the other two positive results that arrived late on Wednesday, one was a 16-year-old boy and the other a four-year-old girl.
A fresh case of swine flu (H1N1) has been detected in the State. With this, the number of patients infected by the H1N1 virus has gone up to four. Wife of L Rajkumar Singha, a retired Army personnel who was earlier tested positive for the H1N1 virus, today tested positive for the same virus and is undergoing treatment at the Army Hospital, Basistha, official sources stated.
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has invoked the 102-year old Epidemic Diseases Control Act, 1907, to fight swine flu.
Eighty five per cent of the nation
MUMBAI: Screening and isolation of swine flu patients began on Wednesday at some private hospitals that have been allowed by the state government to do so. Private hospitals were also distributing Tamiflu to those who showed symptoms of H1N1, officials said.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat is now the fourth state in the country to invoke the 102-year-old Epidemic Disease Control Act, giving more teeth to the health administration to tackle the swine flu menace. Other states which have already invoked the Act are Maharashtra, Delhi and Haryana.
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has allowed 21 private hospitals in the state to treat swine flu cases, a senior government official said here today. So far, the death toll due to swine flu in Maharashtra has reached 19.
The swine flu pandemic Swine flu, till now, has claimed three lives in Mumbai. Experts think malaria is a bigger threat because more than 3,000 people have been admitted to hospitals this month. Of the 40 deaths, at least 15 have died because of malaria.
A student who has returned to Hazaribagh town from Pune has been admitted to the Sadar hospital with flu symptoms. Doctors suspect that 25-year-old Saket Kumar has contracted the H1N1 virus. His swab sample has been sent to RIMS in Ranchi.
The World Health Organisation has given $2 million to a Pune-based vaccine-making firm to develop and manufacture swine flu vaccine.
The large- scale movement of migrant labour into Garo Hills for employment in the coal and limestone mines and frequent travellers to and from Guwahati-Shillong-Tura have rung the alarm bells for medical experts who believe Garo Hills could also face an outbreak of swine flu.
The scare of swine flu has crept into the Defence establishments after a CRPF jawan and an Army soldier in Mizoram and a jawan in Assam tested positive for it. Defence sources said all the security forces have been put on alert to prevent its personnel from being affected by the H1N1 virus even as special monitoring was being done for those returning from holidays.
Two more patients in Assam have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, and they have been lodged in at the Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh and at the Army Base Hospital, Basistha. The total number of patients undergoing treatment for the flu infection in the state now stands at three.
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa recorded its first Influenza A H1N1 cases on Tuesday with two persons testing positive. Lab tests at the National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata, confirmed the flu in Ratikanta Nayak (28) of Soro in Balasore and Amit Singh, a student of NIT, Rourkela.
While the lone patient infected by H1N1 virus lodged in Guwahati
NEW DELHI: The Union government will soon issue a fresh set of guidelines for schools to help them contain the spread of A (H1N1). It includes asking the authorities to avoid holding the morning assembly, cultural gatherings and any other kind of congregation.