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 …
The developing world will suffer about 80 per cent of the damage from climate change despite accounting for only around a third of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the World Bank said on Sunday.
THE logic in favour of purchases of vaccine firms seems irrefutable. The world is in the grip of a swine-flu pandemic, which will probably infect 40% or more of the human race. Vaccines are likely to be in demand for some time. And the vaccine business has high barriers to …
While the country is preparing to combat pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus, another outbreak of a virus called dengue is gradually escalating at an alarming level. City hospitals are seeing huge number of patients everyday. Health experts warned that if proper measures are delayed, the condition could be more fatal …
Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported recently. A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease …
Mumbai Three people in the state died of H1N1 over the weekend taking the death toll to 124. Two of them died in Mumbai, one at civic-run King Edward Memorial Hospital and the other at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. On Thursday night, 11-month-old Jayesh from Nerul was rushed to KEM …
Sept. 29: Swine flu claimed two more lives in the city on Tuesday taking the death toll to 34. Both the deaths were reported at Gandhi Hospital. The patients were admitted to the hospital with acute pneumonia which they developed due to the H1N1 virus. They were identified as Kavitha, …
PLANT SCIENCES Never too late Flowers are more resilient than they appear. They shoot up against all odds. The credit goes to genetic matter called microRNA that inhibit protein formation crucial to flowering in young plants. External cues like sunlight make them flower. But in the absence of cues, too, …
While the country had reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) from 2006-08 and experts had questioned the role of migratory birds in the transmission of the virus, a latest study by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) and city-based Ela Foundation has given a clean chit …
More than six million doses of swine flu vaccine will be available by the first week in October, more that twice as many as had been recently expected, federal health officials said. As before, however, most will be the FluMist nasal spray, which is recommended only for people ages 2 …
The overall swine flu situation in Dhaka city improved during the Eid vacation but the number of patients with dengue fever increased, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research on Wednesday.
Sept. 23: The health and family welfare minister, Mr D. Nagender, has confirmed that swine flu has claimed 26 lives in the state and 13 others are in critical condition. A large number of patients had been discharged after treatment, he added. According to the minister, the Osmania Hospital recorded …
Sri Lanka has successfully managed Novel Avian Infuenza (A)H1N1 when comparing with the other countries and carried out diagnosis free. The Government spends over Rs.15,000 to conduct medical tests on a person, a Heathcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said the tool kit required to carry out the medical …
NEW DELHI: The Capital reported 106 more positive cases of swine flu on Monday, taking the total number of cases in Delhi so far to 1,957. Of the cases reported on Monday, 65 are children. The Delhi Health Department said 90 per cent of the patients who reported with swine …
New Delhi: On Monday, 106 new cases of H1N1 influenza were confirmed in the capital. With this, total number of confirmed cases has risen to 1,957. Of the 20 confirmed cases, 65 are children.
39,253 Pneumonia & Respiratory Tract Infection Cases Reported In The State Last Month Paul John | TNN Surat/Ahmedabad: After a spate of swine flu deaths in the state, the growing number of pneumonia and acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) cases in various cities has been worrying state health department …
HYDERABAD: The swine flu virus, which was hitherto confined to a few cities in Andhra Pradesh, claimed its second victim in Mahabubnagar district on Thursday as the disease spread fast to new areas. A suspected patient was quarantined in Guntur. According to information reaching here, Saritha of Peddapur village in …
Vinson Kurian Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 15 Research conducted at Texas A&M; University has sought to link the 1918 El Nino, among the strongest in history, and the flu pandemic that year. The El Nino of 1918 coincided with one of the worst droughts in India, according to Prof Benjamin Giese, lead …
It will result in immunity Influenza A (H1N1) is a mild viral strain. Though it is highly infectious, it has low mortality. It kills mostly those who have complications like pneumonia or underlying chronic diseases such as diabetes or asthma. Worldwide, swine flu mortality is 1 per cent.
State Has Highest H1N1 Death Rate In Country Paul John & Radha Sharma | TNN Ahmedabad: Data put up on the Union ministry of health and family welfare website clearly shows that Gujarat has the highest swine flu death rate in the country. One in every 10 H1N1 positive patient …
