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 …
JAIPUR: A new Michigan strain of virus is circulating in the state causing swine flu but doctors claimed that nothing to worry about as the existing treatment available in hospitals is effective. In government-run Sawai Man Singh Hospital, 12 persons have died this year. However, doctors pointed out that they …
NOIDA: A 65-year-old man has been diagnosed with swine flu, making it the third confirmed case of the disease in Gautam Budh Nagar this season. A sample of the patient, who had come to Fortis Hospital in Sector 62 last week, was sent to the National Centre for Disease Control …
Lucknow: The leading government hospitals in the city are not prepared to tackle swine flu cases. In a reality check done by TOI on Monday, not a single isolation ward for swine flu patients was found in the major government hospitals. At KGMU, there were no signs of preparation at …
JAIPUR: At a time when the health department is battling against swine flu, the threat of zika is also looming large. Three more persons died of swine flu on Sunday taking the toll to 27 in the month of May. Besides, five persons tested positive for the flu on Monday. …
KOLKATA: When Aradhya Dhanuk lost her battle to swine flu early on Saturday, the world fell apart for the 18-month-old's parents. Emotions ran high as relatives started arriving at the Institute of Child Health (ICH). Few among them even tried to create a ruckus. But the father of the child …
KOCHI: Concerned by the spurt in H1N1 cases, the Union government had asked the state to submit a detailed report on action plan to contain the disease.The state health department, which is focusing on awareness programmes, briefed the Centre regarding the measures taken by them in this regard. "We have …
Residents allege contaminated water supply; unseasonal rain also suspected cause Hospitals in the capital town saw an unusual rush over the past one week with several hundred people testing positive for jaundice after allegedly consuming polluted water. People from numerous suburbs have now complained about the alleged supply of contaminated …
Maharashtra has recorded 1,058 swine flu cases and 210 deaths so far A 30-year-old woman from Bhandup, who was seven months pregnant, has become the third person to succumb to the deadly swine flu virus in the city. Originally from Allahabad, the woman came to the city only a month …
IGMC docs told to find out reasons behind outbreak during summer instead of winters Baffled at the outbreak of swine flu in the state during the summer months instead of winters, the state government has asked doctors at the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) to undertake a study to find …
NAGPUR: Right in the middle of peak summer, when swine flu was expected to vanish from the city, it has grown manifold. Of all the swine flu affected patients recorded from January 1, 2017, till date, 50% of the positive cases and deaths have been recorded in the last 30 …
BMC health officials said there was no reason to panic about swine flu cases yet At the heels of the second swine flu death in Mumbai in which a 72-year-old woman from Kurla succumbed to the viral infection, the health officials in the city insisted there is no need to …
PUNE: A 61-year-old woman from New Sangvi was among the two persons who succumbed to swine flu-induced complications in the city last week, taking the number of H1N1 deaths to 51 so far this year. At least eight more patients diagnosed with the contagion are in critical condition and have …
The study, conducted by the Sir Gangaram Hospital, has found that 52.9 per cent of the 151 patients analysed “had one or more co-existing medical conditions” and mortality was found in 8 per cent of the patients. AT LEAST one in two patients tested positive for swine flu during the …
Five new fresh cases of swine flu were reported in Rajasthan on Wednesday making the total number of cases 245 in this season so far since January 1. The medical and health department already on high alert has also spoken to Maharashtra where swine flu on the full-fledged outbreak even …
With swine flu (H1N1) positive cases increasing in the district since the last two months, health experts are worried about mutation in the virus strain and the virus' adaptability to seasonal changes that is causing the flu even in peak summer unlike earlier years when swine flu used to strike …
Summers are here and so are ailments related to the hot weather conditions. Suspected dengue patients have started arriving at hospitals in the city. One such patient from Bathinda, who was admitted to a private hospital, was confirmed by doctors to be suffering from dengue. The Health Department is yet …
Swine flu claimed yet another life in the city on Monday when a 52-year-old man from Junagadh succumbed to the deadly virus. The victim Gordhan Chothani was admitted to the Rajkot Civil Hospital after doctors suspected that he was suffering from swine flu. Chothani was suffering from severe cold, cough …
Twenty-two people have lost their lives in Telangana due to swine flu and related complications since August last year, the government said on Tuesday. The death toll is till May 1. As many as 10,232 samples have been tested since August 1 and 1,446 of them tested positive for the …
MUMBAI: An 18-month-old boy became the first casualty of the H1N1 virus, previously known as swine flu, in the city in the last two years. The virus hasn't been active in the city though it has claimed 165 lives in rest of the state since January 1, 2017. "While the …
Avian H9N2 and 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza viruses can infect pigs and humans, raising the concern that H9N2:pH1N1 reassortant viruses could emerge. Such reassortants demonstrated increased replication and transmissibility in pig, but were still inefficient when compared to pH1N1. Here, we evaluated if a reassortant virus containing the hemagglutinin …
