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 …
July 15: After Google now its Mind Tree where employees have been detected with the H1N1 flu virus. Of the 180 employees at this particular office of Mind Tree, five showed flu symptoms and were quarantined. Meanwhile, 56 other employees were advised to stay in isolation. Though the office has …
July 15: The highly contagious swine flu has caught the state underprepared. The health department, it seems, will not be able to tackle a situation if the number of infected patients runs into hundreds. It has not even made ample arrangements to take care of the
Aizawl: As many as 501 pigs in Mizoram have fallen prey to swine fever and the monetary losses have been estimated at Rs 25 lakh, veterinary officials said on Tuesday. However, the officials assured that there was no reason to panic as swine fever cannot be contracted by human beings, …
Firm declares 2-day holiday in one of its satellite offices HYDERABAD: A two-day holiday was declared in one of the satellite offices of Google India in Hyderabad, after a contract employee tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday. Alarmed over the possibility of the virus spreading, Google has asked all …
One more case of Influenza A positive, commonly known as swine flu virus, was detected on Monday raising the number of affected persons to 22 in the country, according to the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research and the National Influenza Centre. The director of the centre, professor Mahmudur …
The number of H1N1 flu cases in the country is nearing the 200 mark with 10 more persons, including six minors, testing positive for the H1N1 virus, taking the total number of those affected by the disease to 193. Of the fresh cases, three each were reported from Delhi and …
AHMEDABAD : Two more suspected cases of swine flu tested positive for H1N1 in Ahmedabad taking the total number of positive cases in city to four. Earlier, two of a batch of ten city girls, who had gone on a yearlong Indo-US educational exchange programme landed in the isolation ward, …
US-BASED vaccine maker Novavax, that is developing a vaccine for Swine Flu, will conduct a major portion of the clinical trials in India. The trials will be conducted from September in joint collaboration with Ahmedabadbased drug major Cadila Pharmaceuticals. Talking to ET, Rahul Singhvi president & CEO Novavax said:
N. GOPAL RAJ The swine-origin Influenza A(H1N1) virus that is responsible for the current pandemic clearly has the ability to leap from one human to another. The chain of transmission, aided by global air travel, has taken the virus from Mexico, where it was first noticed among humans in late …
July 8: On the request of the ministry of health and family welfare, the ministry of external affairs has instructed Indian embassies, high commissions and consulates in the countries affected by H1N1 flu to screen passengers travelling to India. No other country has taken up the issue of exit screening …
New Delhi, July 7: Eight fresh cases of swine flu were reported from across the country on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 153. Three cases were reported in Bangalore, two each in Mumbai and Delhi and one in Hyderabad. The two cases in Mumbai are of two …
Alerted by the spread of swine flu in neighbouring country, Meghalaya Government has set up a screening post at international land crossing along Bangladesh border to check travellers.
- Scientists had warned of pandemic after detecting virus in pigs and humans Researchers in Calcutta saw a global swine flu pandemic coming more than two decades ago when they detected the H1N1 virus in both pigs and humans in the city.
Aizawl: Veterinary officials have identified the disease that killed about 100 pigs in Kolasib district of Mizoram over the last few days as 'Swine Fever', and not the dreaded Swine Flu of the H1N1 virus. ''Swine fever was first detected in Mizoram in 1980. A number of pigs have fallen …
With the detection of swine flu cases in neighbouring Bangladesh, Tripura has formed Rapid Response Teams (RRT) in all districts and prepared a clinical protocol as a precautionary measure. Principal Secretary Health Y P Singh told reporters that isolation wards have been set up in district hospitals and sufficient n-95 …
On June 11, the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the current worldwide epidemic of the new influenza virus A(H1N1), commonly called swine flu, to the status of a pandemic, the highest level of global alert. This is the first flu pandemic in 41 years. The last one was the 1968 …
