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 experts have attributed the rise of swine flu cases to a change in the virus’ strain. Mumbai: The number of swine flu deaths and cases in Maharashtra have risen sharply this year as compared to 2016, according to the state health ministry data. While the state witnessed only 25 …
Four districts including Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar and Baran fall under Kota zone, Choudhary said. Seven fresh cases of swine flu, five from Kota district, one each from Bundi and Baran districts, were reported today, he said. The death toll due to swine flu today rose to 11 in Kota zone …
The district administration has asked the Health Department to take action against private hospitals if they fail to report the cases of swine flu, dengue, malaria and chikungunya. Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Ravinder Singh, at a meeting of health officials, asked them to write to the Medical Council of India …
BHUBANESWAR: A 45-year-old man admitted in Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Sambalpur, died of swine flu on Tuesday, taking the H1N1 toll in the state to 30 so far, official sources said. Fourteen more people (nine men and five women) tested positive for H1N1, taking the …
LUCKNOW: Swine flu has claimed one more life in the city .The 45-year-old man, a resident of Thakurganj, died at KGMU trauma centre on Tuesday . Ironically, his report confirming that he had tested to swine flu came on Wednesday . This was the 12th swine flu death in the …
Bhopal: Swine flu has claimed 23 lives in Madhya Pradesh since July and infected at least 115 people. More than 550 people are suspected to have contracted the disease, but MoS-health Sharad Jain had this to say on Wednesday: "Only God can be blamed for H1N1 deaths." What's worrying is …
LUCKNOW: Four deaths of patients tested swine flu positive were reported from the state on Tuesday along with 111 new positive cases on the day. With this the tally of positive influenza A H1N1 cases reached 2,473 since January and the death toll since then till August 29, reached 61. …
Those attending to patients & sanitation staff who are at risk to get priority The Health Department has made available immunisation vaccines against swine flu to high-risk employees who generally attend to suspected and confirmed cases of swine flu coming to the health facilties in the district for treatment. The …
Jaipur: State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has asked the superintendent of the SMS Hospital whether it is equipped to handle serious swine flu cases and furnish a report on its queries by September 12. Meanwhile, the state has reported 32 fresh swine flu positive cases and one more death on …
CUTTACK: Two more persons fell to swine flu in the State on Monday, taking the toll to 29. One of the victims was from Nuapada district and the other from Jajpur.The person from Jajpur was identified as Ganesh Barik (72) of Mangalpur area. He succumbed at SCBMCH. "Barik, who was …
Ahmedabad: Despite the state government's rosy claims of having the swine flu situation under control, seven more people died from the deadly H1N1 virus on Monday. This takes the death toll in Gujarat this year till August 28 to 338. The state also recorded 187 new swine flu cases on …
A study which appeared in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) journal suggests that constant surveillance and data gathering of patients who have consumed Oseltamivir has to be undertaken and continuously updated. During his visit to isolation wards in Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Ahmedabad, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on …
Pune: While swine flu cases are being reported from across Maharashtra, hospitals in Pune city also are treating 33 of the 43 critical cases in the state. All the patients, critical with swine flu, are currently on ventilator support in different hospitals. Apart from the 33 individuals being treated in …
AHMEDABAD: City continues to battle with swine flu with four more deaths on Sunday. With eight more succumbing to deadly H1N1 virus on Sunday, the toll from January 1 to August 27 this year reached 331 in the state. According to a statement from the Gujarat government, 192 fresh cases …
Nagpur: The number of swine flu patients in the city is rising alarmingly with each passing day. The number of positive patients has increased to 98 this year, out of which 16 were recorded in the last 19 days. To add to it, as per central government guidelines, only critical …
Seasonal flu vaccination is not part of India's national vaccination policy So far this year, H1N1 or swine flu has infected 18,000 people and killed 871, a nine-fold rise over the 1,786 cases and 265 deaths reported last year. Two years after a massive outbreak in 2015 that infected 42,500 …
NEW DELHI: Swine flu has claimed over 1,000 lives so far this year, which is four times more than deaths recorded last year, with a total of 22,186 cases reported across the country till now, data from the Union health ministry revealed. Maharashtra has the highest death toll with 437 …
Five persons suspected of suffering from disease died in a week As many as five persons who were suspected suffering from swine flu died during the past one week. Two of them tested positive. Of the 30 patients suspected suffering from the disease in the district, 10 have tested positive. …
KOTA: The menace of swine flu and dengue has intensified in Kota. Three more patients have been tested positive for swine flu, taking the number of patients to 57 since January. Similarly, 149 people have been tested positive for dengue. Swine flu has claimed nine lives and dengue one life …
LUCKNOW: The attack of swine flu is far from being curbed in the city for now with 47 more cases of the influenza A H1N1 reported positive in Lucknow on Wednesday. With the fresh cases reported on the day, total 1078 patients have been down with the highly contagious disease …
