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 pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS Two cases confirmed in city, taking the total of reported cases in the State to 21 WITH the Government Gen t eral Hospital confirming on t Tuesday two swine flu cases in t the city, Health Secretary V K f Subburaj has said H1N1 vaccination would …
S Mahesh | ENS Sufficient equipment and laboratories are not available in rural government hospitals for testing cases FIFTEEN suspected swine flu cases have been reported at the Kanyakumari M Medical College Hospital since January and of them on only three cases tested positive. Of the three cases, two were …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: No need to panic. Situation under control. Swine flu has caused more casualties among pregnant women as they failed to report on time to the hospitals. These are the preliminary findings of the Central team that visited Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam to assess the swine flu situation. The team, that …
U Anand Kumar NEW DELHI: Pandemic influenza H1N1 cases continued to be on the rise in the southern states, especially Kerala, during the last two weeks. In all, 266 lab-confirmed cases were reported in Kerala last week out of a total 345 confirmed cases in the country. Eighteen cases were …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even though the total number of swine flu cases being reported in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam has started coming down, a total of 46 positive cases and one death was reported in the state on Sunday. Vidhya, 27, of Thirumala from Thiruvananthapuram who was undergoing treatment for pneumonia and who …
June 24: Swine flu claimed the life of one more person, a woman from Mahbubnagar, in a city hospital on Thursday, taking the toll in the current spell of infection to three. K. Vani, 27, wife of Naveen Kumar from Mahbubnagar, was admitted in a corporate hospital in the city …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Three deaths caused by H1N1 and 41 fresh cases of the disease were reported in the State on June 24. Afeefa, 19, of Vadakara, Sojan, 10, of Kalaparambil, Idukki, and Jyothi, 25, of Kalladikodu were the three dead. The deceased were under treatment for acute respiratory diseases. Of the …
Mumbai The number of H1N1 cases in Mumbai has shot up in the rainy season, with 60 cases between June 1 and 23, after only 33 from January 1 to May 30. Additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar said that due to early showers, the number of cases has been more …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi June 19, 2010, 0:02 IST Pune-based Serum Institute of India will soon become the second company to get manufacturing approval for a vaccine for the H1N1 virus (swine flu) . The company
Visakhapatnam, June 18: The district collector, Mr J. Shyamala Rao, has appealed to the people not to panic following death of a patient on Friday and said there were enough vaccines and medicines available with the district medical and health authorities. The collector held a meeting with the medical officials …
Visakhapatnam, June 18: Swine flu has resurfaced in the port city with the death of a 36-year-old man here on Friday. The victim, K. Appanna of Railway New Colony fell sick after returning home from Srikakulam last week. He was admitted to a corporate hospital where he tested positive for …
Four Bar Headed geese nesting in a remote area in China have no idea that they are being tracked by scientists at the Aligarh Muslim University. Their movements from the time they arrived in India have been on surveillance thanks to the satellite collars that have been fitted to them …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Centre will send a three-member team to Kerala on Wednesday to study the increasing trend in the A(H1N1) influenza cases after the onset of monsoon in the State. The fresh outbreak has affected Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts. There have been 16 deaths and 201 laboratory-confirmed …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The fact-finding team from the Union Health Ministry will start assessing the swine flu situation in the state from Wednesday. The three-member expert team, two of whom have already reached the state capital, will be meeting Health Secretary Manoj Joshi on Wednesday morning before visiting the hospitals in the …
C Shivakumar | ENS THE government has alerted authorities in six bordering districts of the State after 11 new cases of swine flu were reported from neighbouring Kerala in the last two days. Health Secretary V K Subburaj said on Monday the fresh cases of swine flu in Kerala were …
Thiruvananthapuram: In response to a request from Kerala, a team of public health experts deputed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will be in the State during the week to conduct an epidemiological study into the re-emergence of the A(H1N1) virus in Kerala during the monsoon season …
At least 195 cases of Influenza A (H1N1), including 36 on Saturday, have been reported in the State, in the latest contagion raging since May this year. Pre-monsoon showers, followed by the arrival of south-west monsoon, have only hastened the pace of spread of infections, according to officials in the …
A year after the World Health Organisation declared an Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has raised
