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 …
Meanwhile, in between continuous drives running in the city to find and destroy dengue larvae, four new patients of dengue also have been registered, taking the total number to 37, and one death so far this year. With two deaths and 59 new patients testing positive in the last two …
517 people have died of swine flu in Delhi As many as 166 fresh cases of swine flu have been reported from Delhi taking the total number of confirmed cases of the virus to 517. The figures are till July 30. The deadly virus has claimed a total of four …
SURAT: Six new swine flu cases were reported in the city on Tuesday, including a six-month-old male from Adajan area, taking the total number of H1N1 infected patients to 69 since January this year. The deadly virus has claimed nine lives till date. According to the health department officials of …
LUCKNOW: Lucknow reported 23 fresh cases of swine flu on Wednesday with seven of these cases being that of children between the age of one and seven years. The youngest patient of the influenza A H1N1 was a 15 month old girl child from LDA colony. The city since January …
Mohali: In a bid to control the mortality and morbidity arising from H1N1 virus (Swine Flu), the health department has issued an advisory to all district authorities for launching awareness campaign regarding the flu. Spokesperson of the health department said in the past few days some suspected cases of H1N1 …
State Animal Husbandry and Veterinary department Director Dr Saingura Sailo said laboratory tests confirmed that the cause of the deaths of pigs in Champhai and Biate was classical swine fever which had been present in the state since 1990s. At least 210 pigs and piglets have died due to outbreak …
Vadodara: There is no let down in number of people getting infected with H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, in the city. On Sunday, 13 more patients from the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) limits tested positive, taking the total number of patients to 128 just within the VMC limits. …
LUCKNOW: Leaving health officials baffled on Sunday, Lucknow recorded its highest surge in fresh swine flu cases since January, with 23 new cases recorded on the day, by the health department. The city reached the highest figure of influenza A H1N1 cases in the state, with its own tally of …
CHANDIGARH: The first pandemic of H1N1 appeared in 2009 in the country. But what has startled the doctors is that the virus that used to spread in winters has started victimising people during monsoon this year. 17 H1N1 cases have been reported this month including three deaths so far. The …
A four-year-old girl and a middle-aged woman died of dengue and a man allegedly succumbed to swine flu (A1H1) at the government hospital here, hospital sources said on Thursday. The girl from Vettaikaranpudur in Pollachi in the district, was admitted to the hospital three days ago and succumbed on Wednesday, …
Swine flu cases in the Vadodara region are steadily on the rise with 10 more persons testing positive for H1N1 virus on Wednesday. The number of people infected with the swine flu virus has now reached 114. As results of the 14 samples which were tested at SSG hospital arrived, …
One more persons tested positive for swine flu on Wednesday taking the total number to six in the last three days in the state. All the patients have been undergoing treatment in a private hospital in the city. State government reiterated preparedness in different hospitals and issued guidelines to tackle …
Although the number of H1N1 positive cases is on the rise this year and two deaths have been reported in Dakshina Kannada district so far, DHO Dr Ramakrishna Rao said that the patients need not panic. Briefing mediapersons here on Tuesday, he said that throat swab samples have been collected …
While Delhi is struggling hard to deal with the dengue and chikungunya menace, the rise in the cases of swine flu has put the entire nation on a red alert. As many as 320 cases of the H1N1 virus have been reported from the national capital as per the data …
Chandigarh: Even though three PGI doctors have contracted swine flu (H1N1 virus) recently, most doctors still shy away from taking the preventive vaccine. Doctors of the Sector-16 Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH) received the vaccine on June 6 but antibodies take at least two weeks to get activated. Also, a circular …
According to official estimates, until July 9, 12,460 people had been infected, and 600 had succumbed to swine flu in the country. Gujarat recorded 75 deaths from 289 infections; Kerala reported 63 deaths from 1,127 infections, Rajasthan saw 59 deaths from 407 reported cases; and Karnataka had 15 deaths from …
According to state health officials, doctors attributed the rise in number of swine flu cases to patients coming in late for treatment. Mumbai: Swine flu, a vector-borne disease, has so far claimed 330 lives in Maharashtra, making it the worst of swine flu-hit states in the country. Across India, the …
CHENNAI: The fogging machines may have turned to fight dengue, but the state hasn't fully washed its hands of another virus. Since January, Tamil Nadu recorded close to 3,000 cases of H1N1influenza virus - the highest in the country. This is a 32-fold jump from last year, when 122 people …
The death toll in Maharashtra so far this year is higher than the number of deaths from H1N1 in the whole country in 2016 — 265 Replying to an unstarred question, Health Minister J P Nadda informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that 600 people had died of H1N1 infections until …
GURUGRAM: An advisory has been issued on Monday by the state health department following a rise in the swine flu cases in other parts of the country. The advisory instructs all hospitals to take immediate action when a patient is suspected of being infected with swine flu. In Gurgaon, 37 …
