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 …
MEXICO CITY: Mexican officials have declared the influenza A(H1N1) epidemic to be waning, but medical experts worldwide say it is to early to make that call. Mexico began its first tentative steps toward normalcy, with Health Secretary Jose Cordova saying most businesses would reopen on Wednesday nationwide, citing ebb in …
45,000 passengers have been screened across all airports. Five people have been kept under observation for the H1N1 virus in the country as of today, even as the death toll worldwide owing to the swine flu rose to 26. A total of 45,000 passengers have been screened across all airports …
ALISTAIR BELL MEXICO CITY May 4 Mexico said it was winning the battle against a deadly new strain of flu as it stayed largely shut for business and cases dropped, but global health officials hinted a pandemic was still likely. World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Margaret Chan, paving the way …
Health authorities on Monday said five persons, including three in the national capital, have been kept under observation for the H1N1 virus in the country. The death toll worldwide due to the virus has risen to 26. Health officials claimed a total of 45,000 passengers have been screened across all …
AHMEDABAD: The two suspected cases of swine flu among humans in Delhi and one in Hyderabad have made the Gujarat health department officials devise an action plan with immediate effect. The plan involves round-the-clock monitoring of all passengers on international flights coming into the state and setting up of two …
Pune Health officials in Pune are not taking any chances as they work round the clock to keep any possible H1N1 virus (swine flu) from entering the city limits. Nowhere in the city was this as clear on Monday as at the Pune airport, where director J P Mathur and …
Dr Rudresh said that homoeopathy can be considered to combat the influenza. The medicine can be prepared in just two days of studying the virus pathology. As fresh suspected cases of the deadly H1N1 virus, a global pandemic, continue to be spotted at international airports in New Delhi and Hyderabad, …
With swine flu now widespread in the United States, the World Health Organization reported Monday that the disease had widened globally, too, with 20 countries reporting 985 laboratory confirmed cases, compared with 18 countries reporting 898 confirmed cases on Sunday. Colombia and El Salvador were the latest countries to join …
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico has moved past the peak of an H1N1 flu epidemic and is in the "phase of descent," the government said on Sunday, although world health officials still say the unpredictable virus could become a pandemic. Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said the outbreak appeared to have …
The best way to track the spread of swine flu across the United States in the coming weeks may be to imagine it riding a dollar bill. The routes taken by millions of them are at the core of a computer model at Northwestern University that is predicting the epidemic
Patralekha Chatterjee May.04 : Mexico, the epicentre of the new flu outbreak, may seem a world away from India. But there is a flip side to frequent flying
May 3: The health authorities have cleared all doubts of anybody having contracted the H1N1 flu in the national capital after the reports of six persons turned out to be negative. Dr N.K. Chaturvedi of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital said that all samples were found negative and the last patient …
Police, pig farmers clash in Egypt over culling MEXICO CITY: Influenza A(H1N1), popularly termed swine flu, extended its reach through Europe and Latin America, with at least five countries reporting new cases on Sunday. Health experts were investigating a case of the virus jumping from a person to pigs, trying …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has instructed authorities in all the sea ports across the State not to allow crew members of foreign cargo ships to set foot on Indian soil without being thoroughly checked. Among the busiest sea ports receiving cargo ships from abroad are Kandla and Mundra, …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: With a Hyderabad passenger too testing negative for influenza A(H1N1), the government asserted that the situation was under control and no case of the flu had been reported at any international airport in the country. According to official sources, the clinical samples of the passenger screened …
In view of the threat of outbreak of swine influenza/flu in Uttar Pradesh, the health officials are keeing high vigil across the state. Experts are of the view that some preventive steps can reduce the chances of swine flu infections spreading to human beings. UP Council of Agriculture Research's scientific …
LARGE PARTS OF MEXICO REMAIN SHUT AS TRAVEL SUFFERS AS a new flu strain spreads around the world, many of the largest US companies have halted business travel to Mexico and are increasing efforts to keep workplaces free of germs, but measures remain low-key. Companies are dusting off contingency plans …
