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 …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: With new cases of swine flu reported from Jalandhar and Hyderabad on Monday, the total number in the country has gone up to 30. The new cases include a 48-year-old woman, and two girls
AHMEDABAD: Private doctors in the state have been directed to report any person showing symptoms of H1N1 who may have missed the surveillance system at the international airport terminal. This is possible because the virus has an incubation of seven to 10 days. "Over 2,000 reporting units have been created …
NEW DELHI: Three more persons, including a three-year-old girl who travelled to Bangalore from New Jersey on June 12 with her mother, tested positive for the A (H1N1) influenza virus. Her mother too has tested positive for the flu. Several persons across the country manifesting symptoms are being tested.
The new H1N1 virus, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, appears to have been circulating undetected among pigs for years, researchers reported on Thursday. Although health officials have been watching for new influenza viruses in humans, animal health regulators have missed the opportunity to check swine, …
Pune. Mumbai: Swine flu in India is not yet pandemic, but it is certainly creating panic in parts of the country. Fear is mounting as the number of infected persons continues to grow -- though only 20 cases of the disease have been confirmed nationwide, so far -- and worried …
June 14: Three more air passengers were confirmed with swine flu on Sunday, taking the total number of A-H1N1 cases in the city to 12. Five of them are under treatment at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, while the others have been discharged. Of the three cases confirmed on Sunday, …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 15, 2009, 0:18 IST Even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) as a global pandemic, the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) maintains that there is no role of animals (including swine) in spreading this virus. This, being …
NO KIDDING: A masked girl sits with a classmate at a kindergarten in Hong Kong on Thursday in the wake of the swine flu alarm. GENEVA: The World Health Organisation told its member nations on Thursday it was declaring a swine flu pandemic
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Though the World Health Organisation on Thursday declared an A (H1N1) influenza pandemic, putting the affected countries on the highest alert, India continues to be in the
NEW DELHI: With five more suspected cases of A(H1NI) infection reported from Delhi and Mumbai, the Committee of Secretaries on Wednesday reviewed the situation in the country. According to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, two cases were reported from Delhi, while three were reported from Mumbai. They have …
Two persons have already tested positive for the virus in the Capital; no need to panic , says Health Minister ? Hospitals had been put on alert: Minister ? Toll-free helpline (1075) had been started in Delhi NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has formed ten multi-disciplinary teams of trained doctors …
Mumbai An Air India passenger was quarantined at Mumbai airport late on Sunday evening for suspected swine flu infection, making him the 16th flier to be quarantined in the state. The passenger, a 29-year-old male resident of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir who visited Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, was …
New Delhi: Despite the ban on sale of Tamiflu (oseltamivir), the anti-flu drug used in the treatment of H1N1 influenza, chemist shops in the Capital are selling it over-the-counter, at nearly double or triple the price. At a prominent medicine shop in Connaught Place, availability is not an issue. A …
Teena Thacker New Delhi: Swine flu appears to be spreading in the country with two more cases being reported on Sunday, one from the Capital, taking the total to 10 so far. A 35-year-old male passenger, who took a New York-New Delhi flight (AI 102) and reached Delhi on June …
M. Sai Gopal HYDERABAD: Seven positive influenza A (H1N1) flu virus cases, including an indigenous flu positive case, the largest number in the country, has prompted authorities to take measures to convert Hyderabad into a veritable fortress. The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has been fortified with doctors and a …
N. Gopal Raj Experts have advised the WHO to continue using geographical spread as the basis to move a pandemic to Phase 6. But they have also indicated that it should modify the criterion to include an assessmentof severity. With the swine-origin flu virus being reported from over 60 countries, …
Hyderabad, June 5: Four more air passengers with swine flu symptoms surfaced in the city on Friday. The four include a 35-year-old software professional from Brazil, a 25-year-old from Canada, a 23-year-old from New Mexico and a 30-year-old from London. Till date, eight patients with suspected symptoms of the flu …
