Infectious Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …

Swine flu alert after death in Ranchi

Health department advisory for surgeons and district surveillance units, asking them to screen suspected cases By Our Special Correspondent in Ranchi Swine flu is stalking Jharkhand with at least eight persons testing positive for the H1N1 virus and officials claiming one death in Ranchi last month. The health department has …

Gujarat records 91 swine flu cases in a day, highest in 2019

The state on Monday recorded 91 cases of swine flu, the highest to be registered in a single day since the beginning of 2019. Of these, 66 cases were registered within various municipal corporation limits. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation recorded the highest number of cases at 35, followed by the …

Centre team in Punjab to help contain H1N1

CHANDIGARH: In view of rising cases of swine flu and deaths due to the disease, the Union health ministry has sent a team to Punjab assess the situation and assist the states in strengthening their response mechanism to contain the ailment. While 30 deaths and 301 cases were reported from …

Maharashtra sees 13 swine flu deaths between January & February

The state government's public health department has reported 13 swine flu deaths between January and first week of February. While more cases are found in the Vidarbha region, a handful of cases are reported in Mumbai too, stated state surveillance officer. So far over 145 cases of swine flu have …

State to focus on latent TB eradication

Kochi: Aimed at eliminating TB from the state by 2020, government has once again joined hands with private hospitals to treat and manage latent TB. This comes after the state in collaboration with private and public hospitals managed to reduce TB incidence annually by 4%. “Kerala is ready to take …

2 more die of swine flu, toll reaches 107

JAIPUR: Residents of Sodala area in Jaipur are living life under the scare of swine flu. It is the worst-affected area in the ongoing swine flu outbreak in the city.Edited Two more persons died of swine flu in Nagaur and Bikaner on Sunday taking the total toll to 107 so …

At 245, swine flu cases in Telangana highest in south

HYDERABAD: Telangana has recorded the highest number of cases of swine flu between January 1 and 27 in south India. A total of 245 cases were recorded in the state (largely in areas within GHMC’s jurisdiction) during this period, as compared to 152 in Karnataka, 98 in Kerala, 77 in …

Swine flu: Four more deaths, 36 new cases in Gujarat

Swine flu death toll in the state rose to 31 in the current year with four more patients succumbing on Thursday, the state health department said. The deaths were reported from Banaskantha, Porbandar, Chhota Udepur, and Junagadh city, the health department said in a release. The health department said that …

IIT-Mandi research team finds a target protein to control Zika

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, are making rapid strides in finding a drug to treat those affected by Zika virus. So far, more than a million people across the world have fallen prey to the infection. A team, led by Dr Rajanish Giri, Assistant Professor, Biotechnology, II- …

Two villagers die of swine flu in 10 days

Residents of Raniwala village turn superstitious Two people of Raniwala village in the Lambi Assembly segment have died due to swine flu in the past 10 days and one villager is undergoing treatment for the disease at Faridkot. Several villagers have turned superstitious. A majority of people in the village …

North India states have more H1N1 cases than in 2018

The latest IDSP (Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme), a report by the Health Ministry has revealed that the number of swine flu cases in the first three weeks of 2019 in some North Indian states has already crossed the total number of cases reported in those states in 2018. The alarming …

‘H1N1 hasn’t changed strain in Rajasthan’: Officials

The virus H1N1 has not changed its strain in Rajasthan and tamiflu medicine is quite effective for its treatment in the state, officials from National Institute of Virology, (NIV), Pune confirmed. Before this, in last summer, NIV and SMS Medical college officials had confirmed that H1N1 virus in Rajasthan, just …

Maharashtra: Swine flu claims 8 lives in January, 66 new cases detected

As per the state government health department, around 8 people have died in Maharashtra due to swine flu in January this year. Due to change in climate, more people are suffering from swine flu in the month of January. Between January 1 and 24, besides the death of eight patients, …

Another death due to H1N1 virus, 9 new positive cases reported

Dehradun: A 41-year-old man from Mothrowala, Clement Town succumbed to the swine flu virus in the Mahant Indiresh hospital on Thursday. He was admitted there on January 21 with severe symptoms of H1N1 virus and kept on ventilator. Total death tally in state due to swine flu has now touched …

110 suspected swine flu cases in dist

District Health Department providing Tamiflu tablets for free at civil hospital A sizeable number of suspected as well as confirmed cases of swine flu have surfaced in the district in the past one month. As per the records of the District Health Department, more than one hundreds suspected and four …

Over 2,500 tested positive for swine flu in India, 77 deaths reported

Over 2,500 people tested positive and at least 77 deaths were reported due to swine flu across the country this year till Thursday, with Rajasthan accounting for nearly 60 per cent of the cases. According to a data issued by the government, 2,572 swine flu cases have been reported across …

Swine flu cases in Meerut at 66

MEERUT: The health department issued an advisory to be more vigilant as the number of swine flu cases crossed 60 on Wednesday. The city received heavy rainfall on Monday and Tuesday and that might shoot up cases. Health officials said that the heavy rainfall can increase the risk of infection, …

3,079 suspected swine flu cases found in screening

Amid scare of swine flu, health department has reached out to 83.2 lakh people across the state for conducting their screening for swine flu in three days of its massive door-to-door campaign launched on January 21. First three days of the five-day campaign has brought shocking figures. There were 1.7 …

397 swine flu cases, eight deaths in January in Gujarat

The Gujarat government announced on Wednesday that 397 cases of swine flu had been reported in the state in the month of January so far, while eight persons lost their lives. The highest number of cases were reported in Ahmedabad, the government said. "397 positive cases of seasonal flu have …

After two deaths due to swine flu, Chandigarh gears up to tackle seasonal influenza

Last year, four cases of swine flu were reported in Chandigarh and two patients had died. The swine flu was more violent in 2017 when 63 people were tested positive for this flu, and six lost their lives to it. THE DEATH of two people at PGIMER due to swine …

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