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 …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has invoked the 102-year old Epidemic Diseases Control Act, 1907, to fight swine flu. Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said that with this, the district authorities had been given more powers to take necessary steps to tackle the situation.
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 Seventeen hospitals in Mumbai, three in Pune and …
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. In July too malaria led …
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 …
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. Both had …
Doctors serving in hospitals and medical colleges in State are in a higher state of alert following the first confirmed case of Influenza A (H1N1) infection. Isolation wards in select hospitals are being kept ready for any eventuality, doctors have asked people to observe caution but not to get panicky. …
Influenza has the potential to infect many people quickly. Although the death rate for seasonal flu is probably only around 1% of those affected, when the numbers so affected run into millions, as they do in India, the number of people who die will also be large. It is this …
Swine flu declared pandemic, can be even deadlier three months after it struck, who declared swine flu a global pandemic of the highest level: phase six. Known as the 2009 A (H1N1) virus, it took down 89,921 people across 85 countries in six continents. The death count was 382. Yet …
Even as the rest of the country is on high alert to check the spread of Influenza A (H1N1) commonly known as swine flu, Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has admitted that the State of Nagaland is not prepared to check the attack. Interacting with media persons on the sidelines …
Bangalore, Pune: A 26-year-old teacher became the first swine flu fatality in Bangalore on Thursday, while the pandemic claimed three more lives in Pune , taking the total death toll in the city to 13 and 20 across the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government is doing its …
Aug. 13: A public interest litigation was filed in the AP High Court on Thursday seeking a directive to the state government to make wearing of masks in public places mandatory to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus in the state. The petitioner, Mr Sridhar Reddy, the executive director …
A TEAM headed by the chief of National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Dr Shiv Lal, has arrived in Mumbai to help the state government strategize to curb the spread of the deadly H1N1 virus which has already claimed 13 lives in the state, the largest number of deaths in any …
Many educational institutions closed for a week; masks in demand. The swine flu scare has begun to grip the country with Pune, the worst hit, accounting for 221 of the 327 cases reported in Maharashtra thus far. Across the country, 864 people have been affected, of whom, 523 have been …
Swine flu deaths spread beyond the western region claiming the life of a four-year-old boy in Chennai and two more persons from Pune fell victims raising the toll to seven today, as a worried Centre roped in private hospitals to join the battle against the disease. With swine flu cases …
Meghalaya Government yesterday said it has taken precautionary measures against H1N1 infection and asked people not to panic over swine flu as the lone woman showing symptoms of the influenza tested negative. Director of Health Services Dr K H Lakiang said,
