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 …
Vadodara/Rajkot: Two died of swine flu in Vadodara and Rajkot on Wednesday. A 49-year-old assistant manager with a nationalised bank became the 16th person to succumb to swine flu in Vadodara on Wednesday. Hitendra Parmar was admitted to SSG Hospital on Monday. A resident of Harni-Warasiya Ring Road, he used …
New Delhi: With the WHO now admitting that the seriousness of the swine flu pandemic had been overestimated, India on Tuesday demanded an inquiry on why the global body pressed the panic button in the first place. Union minister of state for health Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday said it was …
To Be Tested On 100 Volunteers; In April, Local Version At Rs 80 Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Clinical trials of the first H1N1 vaccine to be used on Indians from mid-February will start on Wednesday. Three medical institutes in Delhi, Chandigarh and Pune will test the H1N1 vaccine …
Three consecutive swine flu deaths in the last three days, starting from January 16, have rocked the industrial capital of the State, which is already reeling under swine flu scare for the last few months. The tentacles of swine flu epidemic have tightened around Indore and all the tall claims …
NEW DELHI: The number of swine flu cases in the Capital has been registering a steady decline for a week now and doctors in the city say the fall in numbers will stay for some time.
Vadodara: The H1N1 virus claimed five more lives in the state by Monday, taking the toll to 185. In Vadodara, 56-yearold Vinayak Pathak and 28-year-old Meena Agrawal died at SSG hospital (SSG). Both persons
One more person has tested positive for swine flu in the state, taking the total number of cases in the state to 66, health officials said today. Four persons have died due to swine flu in the state so far. An employee of the Garrison Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) has …
The H1N1 flu virus is spreading most actively in North Africa, South Asia and parts of Europe, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Raising its official global death toll from the pandemic to nearly 14,000, the WHO also said that while India
Just months after rushing to order enough swine-flu vaccine to protect their citizens, European governments are cancelling orders and trying to sell or give away extra doses as they sit on a glut of the vaccine. The main reason: European health officials decided that only one shot per person was …
Members Of Vaccine Board Had Financial Links With Pharma Majors Rema Nagarajan | TIMES INSIGHT GROUP Even as questions are being raised about whether the swine flu scare was exaggerated to benefit pharma companies, evidence has surfaced that several members of the World Health Organisation
Even as two more persons succumbed to influenza A virus (H1N1) today, taking the tally to 83, the city recorded only six positive cases of the contagious flu
Ahmedabad: Swine flu claimed seven more lives in Gujarat over the last few days, taking the death toll due to the deadly virus in the State to 155, while 20 others, including two infants, tested positive for the H1N1 virus, health officials said here on Sunday. According to officials, three …
Amidst reports of seven persons succumbing to Influenza A (H1N1) in Delhi, the city health department confirmed that there had been no casualties today. The department added that 15 fresh cases had surfaced today. Principal secretary, health, J.P. Singh, and assistant nodal officer, Dr Anjan Prakash, said,
Despite tall claims by the Health Department that it had checked the spread of the swine flu, 11 persons have died so far in Madhya Pradesh in past 25 days. Nine of them in Indore alone. The swine flu epidemic has taken an ugly turn, particularly in Indore, as half …
Some 14 deaths from swine flu (H1N1) have been reported so far throughout the country, said National Institute of Health (NIH) Executive Director Dr Bargees Mazhar Qazi on Wednesday. Briefing media persons on current swine flu situation, the ED said of the total 650 suspected cases, 168 were reported H1N1 …
A slew of deadly diseases like AIDS and swine flu have transmitted from animals to humans due to climate change and dramatic environmental disruptions, scientists in the US have claimed warning that the phenomenon may continue in future.
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: After a spate of deaths in the state due to swine flu, general physicians have suddenly woken up to the need of prescription of swine flu medicines to their patients suffering from flu. Over the last two weeks the sale of swine flu drugs in …
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, was at the centre of a political storm after health authorities admitted they had a huge oversupply of vaccines for the H1N1 swine flu virus and were trying to sell them on to other countries. Several pharmaceutical manufacturers, led by Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, face …
