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 …
A day after India confirmed its first case of A/H1N1 influenza virus, government tightened the screening process of passengers from flu affected countries. Authorities had on Saturday confirmed that a 23-year-old IT student in Hyderabad had tested positive of carrying the virus. On Sunday authorities also admitted a mother-son duo …
Health authorities said a 23-year-old man, an IT student who flew from New York to Hyderabad via Dubai and New Delhi, tested positive for the virus India has recorded its first positive case of H1N1 influenza virus (earlier referred as swine flu), giving further evidence that the disease is further …
The number of public schools in New York City reporting children with flulike symptoms continued to rise Friday, as three more schools in Queens and Brooklyn were closed, bringing the total to six this week, and parents and city officials wrestled with how to handle the growing spread of the …
The vaccine industry is waiting for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular flu vaccine, or whether to switch to vaccines for the current swine flu outbreak.
May 13: Health authorities on Tuesday said one passenger, who had disembarked at the Hyderabad airport, has been referred to health facility for suspected H1N1 influenza virus. The authorities, meanwhile, maintained no positive flu case has been identified in the country so far. Authorities said as an advance planning, National …
Senior officials from the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) visited the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) here on Wednesday. The team was led by A K Sethi, Director General of health services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Sources …
Pregnant women who get swine flu are at such high risk of complications like pneumonia, dehydration and premature labor that they should be treated at once with the antiviral drug Tamiflu
K. Srinath Reddy Whether it is livestock breeding in factory farms and accompanying deforestation that contributes to global warming and zoonotic infections, or increasing automobile density, which depletes fossil fuels and escalates heart and lung diseases by changing activity patterns and air quality, environmental and health concerns are linked by …
MARK STEVENSON and DAVID KOOP MEXICO CITY ? VIRUS SPREADS TO CUBA, CHINA, THAILAND AND FINLAND; STRICT TRAVEL ADVISORIES ISSUED The swine flu virus was confirmed on Tuesday to have spread to more countries as scientists estimated the new strain could have sickened 23,000 people in Mexico alone before anyone …
Thailand confirms first cases as China suspects a second The swine-flu virus spread to Thailand Tuesday, while China reported the country's second suspected case of A/H1N1, one day after the country confirmed its first case of the virus. Meanwhile, Mexico's toll rose Tuesday to 58 deaths and 2,282 confirmed cases …
278 NEW CASES AS U.S. SURPASSES MEXICO AS MOST AFFECTED NATION China confirms 1st H1N1 case China confirmed its first case of swine flu on the mainland in a Chinese man who recently travelled back from the United States, the Xinhua news agency reported. The 30-year-old man surnamed Bao was …
NEW DELHI: India may join the global race to create the world's first vaccine against the deadly H1N1 influenza virus. A crucial meeting on Tuesday, between the country's best known scientists, vaccine manufacturers like Serum Institute and officials of the health ministry, will decide whether India will actually try to …
Two suspected patients of H1N1 flu, who arrived from Spain and the US, have been kept under observation. The patients were moved to the Naidu municipal hospital
The first case of swine flu in China was confirmed Monday as the epidemic continued moving around the world, with the World Health Organization reporting about 4,700 laboratory-confirmed cases in 30 countries. Communication with a Chinese man, being treated for the new H1N1 strain of flu, was broadcast at a …
BHUBANESWAR: The swine flu panic across the globe has prompted the Orissa Government to go in for a reality check. With scant information available on pig population, the Directorate of Veterinary Services and Animal Husbandry today decided to launch a mapping of pig farming both in the organised and unorganised …
Virology Will the H1N1 virus trigger a pandemic similar to the 1918, 1957 and the 1968 events? Kalyan Ray cites researcher Daniel Perez, who showed that an avian flu virus requires relatively fewer mutations to spread rapidly between mammals. With the world overcoming the initial pangs over swine flu (H1N1) …
China has recorded its first case of the virus commonly known as swine flu, a 30-year-old man who flew last Friday from St. Louis to Chengdu, the Health Ministry said Monday. Chengdu city officials said they had located and quarantined more than 130 of the estimated 150 other passengers who …
Kounteya Sinha | TNN The number of confirmed H1N1 swine flu cases in humans jumped by nearly 1,000 cases in one day, with the deadly virus now found in 29 countries across the globe. On Sunday, the World Health Organisation said the number of confirmed cases of H1N1
NEW DELHI: A crucial finding by clinicians in Mexico, the country where the deadly H1N1 flu virus originated, could have India worried. Initial observations made by the WHO, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mexican clinicians who studied the first 40 deaths in Mexico show that people with …
