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 United States will donate 420,000 packets of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization to help fight the swine flu pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, federal health officials said Thursday. Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other countries are experiencing rapid increases in serious cases and deaths …
No swine flu (H1N1 influenza) case has been reported from any part of Assam till date, asserted Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Assam Assembly today. Replying to Zero Hour questions by Dr Kamala Kalita (AGP) and Mohibul Haque (Ind), the Minister said that the Government has taken all …
Poornima Nataraj, Bangalore, DH News Service: Finally, the long wait for the H1N1 virus test results from National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune is all set to be a thing of the past. The Department of Neuro-Virology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) will soon establish …
Five new H1N1 influenza cases were reported on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases to 109. Of these five cases, two each were reported from Bangalore and Mumbai, while the fifth case was reported from Delhi. Authorities said that out of the two cases in Bangalore, one is that …
Ranchi Veterinary College under Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Ranchi, has issued public notices asking farmers across the state to get their cattle vaccinated against swine fever after deaths of pigs were reported from Jharkhand and Bihar.
Three persons of a US-based non-resident Nepali family, who landed in Kathmandu recently, have been detected with H1N1 virus (Swine Flu), which has caused a global pandemic. Organising a press meet Monday, officials at the Avian Influenza Control Project under the Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit (EDCU) said Swine Flu …
New Delhi: With 11 new cases reported in the country, the total number of H1N1 influenza cases touched 104 on Monday. Of the 11 new cases are reported, four are from Chennai, three from Kerela, two from Delhi and one each from Bangalore and Punjab. The four cases reported in …
Rich nations want to own vaccines developed and developing countries failed to reach an agreement on the exchange of virus samples and vaccines of pandemic flu at a recent World Health Organization (who) meeting . The agreement was debated at the Intergovernmental Meeting on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Geneva on …
patent Human genes create stir in US About 100,000 cancer patients, doctors, researchers and lawyers sued the US government for granting patents for two human genes. They said the patents deny women with breast and ovarian cancer the benefit of new tests and possible treatment. A company or an institution …
Swine Flu Primer What is H1N1? It's a virus which has gene segments from the swine, avian and human flu virus. Scientists have christened it influenza-a (h1n1) virus, commonly known as swine flu. What's A Pandemic? An epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region. …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: There has been a steady increase in A (H1N1) influenza cases in the country with the number touching 93 as four more suspected patients tested positive. Of the confirmed cases, 61 have been discharged while the remaining are undergoing treatment at identified health facilities. The situation …
June 25: Five more cases of H1N1 influenza virus were reported on Thursday, taking the total number of flu patients in the country to 78. Of the five fresh cases, two are from Gurgaon and one each from Delhi, Pune and Kolkata. The health authorities said, of the two H1N1 …
AHMEDABAD: If you shared proximity with a suspected swine flu patient, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has a quarantine notice for you. The notice was brought out after a German national who had complained of tonsillitis was isolated in a ward in VS Hospital. The notice reads that if you …
Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human. But they emphasized that there was no way to prove …
CHANDIGARH: The first confirmed case of swine flu in Chandigarh was reported on Tuesday. The victim, a 19-year-old student of computer science studying in California, had returned to meet his parents in Gurdaspur, 250 km from here, on June 19. He was hospitalised on June 22 immediately after he showed …
The number of Swine Flu patients detected in Sri Lanka is rising day by day, Health officials said. According to Dr. Geetani Wickremasinghe of Medical Research Institute in Colombo another two people suffering from swine flu have been detected yesterday. Both patients who were from Australia, including a ten-year-old boy …
Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human. But they emphasized that there was no way to prove …
...But Indian Govt Still To Place Orders THE first vaccine against the swine flu is likely to be globally available by August. Australia-based biopharmaceutical company CSL is all set to become the first company in the world to develop and manufacture a vaccine against the H1N1 virus and expects it …
NEW DELHI: The total number of confirmed A (H1N1) influenza cases in the country has gone up to 68, with five more people testing positive in the last 24 hours. Of the new cases, three are from Delhi, and one each from Bangalore and Hyderabad. A 66-year-old woman, who was …
