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 …
Every two days, well over a crore of rupees is being spent on swine flu testing in the seven private laboratories in Delhi that are accredited to test for the virus. Approximately 600 samples are tested daily in the three government-run labs free of cost and the private ones test …
The H1N1 (swine flu) virus has not mutated and patients are still responding to Tamiflu, a joint study by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reveals. Swine flu has taken 585 lives in the country in the first two months of the …
Six new Swine flu deaths were reported from across the state on Monday. The death toll has reached 150. With 1,781 total number of Swine flu cases reported, so far this year, it has crossed the highest mark of 1,683 total cases recorded in the year 2010 in the state. …
A hundred more deaths over the last three days have taken the swine flu death toll 585. While the Centre has ordered additional stocks of medicines and diagnostic kits, hospitals have started running out of Tamiflu and protective masks. So far, 8,423 people have contracted swine flu this year in …
Maharashtra continues to report an upward swing in swine-flu cases in February. The dreaded H1N1 virus, which had infected 119 people and killed 22 in the first week of this month, claimed 13 lives and infected 222 alone in the second week between February 8 and February 14. Pune and …
Following the steady rise in the number of swine flu cases, which crossed the 100 mark in the state on Sunday, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered free treatment for such patients. Reviewing preparations to deal with the disease, Akhilesh ordered that health department’s toll free number — 18001805145 — and …
Swine flu claimed eight more lives in Gujarat, taking the toll to 144 since January this year, while 152 cases were reported, officials said here Sunday. “Eight more deaths were reported due to swine flu in Gujarat on Sunday. Two deaths each were reported from districts of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, …
As India deals with the international outbreak of swine flu, there is another silent war that is raging on to contain Ebola. When he came back from Liberia in November last year, little did the man hailing from Rajasthan know that the wait to meet his family would be far …
With an almost two-fold increase in the death toll and number of people testing positive for H1N1 within a week, the spread of swine flu has hit the panic button in Punjab and Haryana. In Punjab, the number of suspected cases has risen to 113, of which 45 have tested …
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued a warning that in the post-pandemic period, cases and outbreaks due to the H1N1 (2009) virus are expected to occur. WHO had mentioned that in some years, the impact can be mild while in other years it can be quite severe. …
Five more people succumbed to the contagious swine flu in parts of Rajasthan during the last 24 hours, as the death toll in the State due to the disease, caused by H1N1 virus, mounted to 109 this year. Two persons each died in Jodhpur and Jaipur districts each, while one …
As many as 216 people have lost their lives to swine flu across the country in the first ten days of February as the death toll due to the contagious disease mounted to 407 this year, mostly in states like Gujarat and Rajasthan. The latest government data said that 5,157 …
With casualties due to swine flu mounting up to 108 in Gujarat and 159 new cases of H1N1 viruses across the State, the Gujarat Cabinet on Wednesday decided to increase 1,100 more beds in various Government hospitals and increase staff strength by 1,360 new employees. The State Cabinet also approved …
Following the death of a suspected patient Suman from Sangam Vihar, two more suspected swine flu patients (B category) of the district have also died. Paramjit Singh (60), a resident of Billy Brech village, and Joginder Singh (65) of Mohalla Baba Gadiya, Phagwara, both died at Patel Hospital yesterday. With …
The swine flu toll in Maharashtra and Rajasthan has reached 100 and 40 respectively. According to reports, six deaths have been recorded in Mumbai due to the H1N1 virus outbreak while five more casualties were reported in Rajasthan on Tuesday. A total of 205 swine flu cases have been recorded …
Even as no new case of swine flu was reported in UP on Monday, the state's tally stands at 60 including six deaths. However, the worrying trend is that cases were on the rise. This may be guessed from the fact that 10 cases have been reported in the past …
Seven new Swine flu deaths were reported in Gujarat on Monday. With this, the total death toll from January 1 has reached 88. A total of 87 new cases were recorded from across the state with highest number of 21 cases reported from Ahmedabad followed by 20 from Kutch. Vadodara …
With 61 new cases of swine flu on Monday, the total number of cases in the city have crossed the 950 mark this year. With the rising number of swine flu cases, city health department reviewed the situation arising out of the spread of H1N1 (swine flu) virus in the …
Since its first outbreak in 2009, Ahmedabad city registered 61 new cases, the highest number of swine flu patients on a single day, in the state on Sunday. The state also registered 11 deaths as well as 117 new H1N1 positive cases — the highest till now. This has taken …
With four more deaths on Sunday, the toll of swine flu deaths in the state has touched 38. While two persons died in Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad recorded one death each. Of the 38 deaths, five have succumbed to the virus in Mumbai since January. Maharashtra has recorded 138 cases …
