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 …
Defying the expectations of experts, clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with only one dose instead of two, so the vaccine supplies now being made will go twice as far as had been predicted. That means it should be possible to vaccinate
R. Prasad CHENNAI: A study to be published in the October issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases has found that using rapid diagnostic tests (the antigen-based testing) for detecting A(H1N1) infection is not advisable because their sensitivity (the ability to detect positive cases) is low. Of the 144 samples …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Pandemic swine flu infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu does, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology. The researchersfrom Imperial College London who conducted the research, say this may explain why people infected with the pandemic strain of swine-origin H1N1 …
The World Health Organisation noticed it first. Now, scientists from Imperial College, London, know why. A study of the H1N1 swine flu virus isolated in US and Europe by British scientists found that the pandemic strain had the advanced ability to infect cells deep in the lungs which the seasonal …
The global swine flu pandemic will expose the failure of the international community to invest in health protection in poor countries, the world's top health official warned here yesterday. World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan said the pandemic would "test the world on the issue of fairness," as she …
People panicked by swine flu continue to throng different hospitals of the capital seeking remedy. About 1,242 patients were given treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) till Monday morning. Though the government has taken initiatives to make the anti-viral drug 'Oseltamivir' easily available for the common people, they are …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: As many as 13 people died of the A (H1N1) influenza in the country in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 131. So far this is the highest number of deaths reported in a day . As many as 93 confirmed cases of swine …
A total of 10.5 lakh Oseltamivir capsules are being supplied across the country for the treatment of the swine flow affected patients. One and a half lakh swine infected patients can be treated with this volume of supply, said SM Alamgir Hossain, Virologist of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and …
The World Health Organisation will provide all necessary assistance to Bangladesh in preventing the spread of swine flu virus. The assurance came when Executive Director of WHO Margaret Chan paid a call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her suite at Hotel Kempinski here Thursday afternoon (local time). Briefing the …
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY H1N1 flu has killed at least 2,837 people, but is not causing more severe illness than previously and the virus has not mutated, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. The United Nations agency is monitoring the strain, commonly known as swine flu, to detect any mutation which …
Come winter, birds and swine flu thrive alike, we need to be prepared for whatever surprises this dreaded virus delivers next, Deputy Commissioner, Tayor Jempen said here today while inaugurating a two-day capacity building and skill development training cum awareness on Avian influenza which was organized by the Department of …
With the detection of 14 new cases on Wednesday, the total number of Swine Flu inflicted persons in the country rose to 261, of them one has died. "Fourteen more cases have been detected today as we have tested few samples of suspected swine flu cases collecting from different hospitals …
COIMBATORE: The number of A (H1N1) flu positive cases in Coimbatore rose to 109 on Tuesday with four more persons being added to the list. Health officials said a student of a women
Thomas Chandy The media storm and the government action on the A(H1N1) flu are warranted, but should not steps to meet infant mortality and malnutrition become national priorities, too? Since August 4, 2009, when the death of a girl from the A(H1N1) flu was reported in Pune, the insatiable media …
The new H1N1 swine flu is estimated to have infected about 800,000 people in New York City in the spring, a top U.S. health official said on Sunday, citing a study due to be released later this week. Dr. Thomas Frieden, who heads the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 31, 2009, 0:23 IST Detection of the H1N1 influenza virus in turkey birds in Chile has heightened the danger of poultry farms elsewhere also getting infected with this pandemic virus, which has already killed nearly 90 people in India and over 2,000 persons worldwide. …
Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients infected with the …
The country has recorded 19 more new swine flu cases in the last 24 hours after health authorities were blamed for lax screening of suspected people on arrival at Zia International Airport, country's main entry point. "We have recorded 19 fresh A H1N1 virus infected people in the country and …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The detection of H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile has raised concerns about poultry farms elsewhere in the world also becoming infected with the pandemic flu virus, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. Chilean authorities last week reported the presence of the pandemic …
