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 …
New Delhi: Children continue to be the most affected by swine flu virus in the city. To date, 2,090 children have been registered to be affected with the flu, of the 3,959 cases across all age groups. Thirty new cases of swine flu were reported on Tuesday from different hospitals,
This past fortnight has witnessed as many as 42 fresh cases of H1N1 in various city hospitals affecting several children and docs After the last surge in Pune, H1N1 is beginning to gain what some experts believe could be a precursor to epidemic proportions in the Union territory of Chandigarh. …
A major concern about the ongoing swine-origin H1N1 influenza virus (S-OIV) outbreak is that the virus may be so different from seasonal H1N1 that little immune protection exists in the human population. In this study, we examined the molecular basis for pre-existing immunity against S-OIV, namely the recognition of viral …
Winter chill has finally settled in the national Capital. On Thursday, Delhi witnessed a drizzle-drenched day with the minimum temperature dipping down to 15 degrees Celsius. This made it the coldest November day in the last five years in the city. The maximum temperature was recorded at 22.4 degrees Celsius. …
After a four-year-old boy from the city lost his life to swine flu at a Delhi hospital a few days ago, three more cases of swine flu have been detected in the city which have put the health authorities on alert. Arnav (4), a resident of Model Town, had recently …
Indian drug major Cipla has launched generic versions of anti-flu drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir in the local market to treat the H1N1 influenza, which is spreading across the globe and in India. Cipla will brand oseltamivir in the local market as Antiflu and zanamivir as Virenza. Antiflu will cost Rs …
Rajkot/Gandhidham: Two more persons succumbed to the H1N1 pandemic in Saurashtra-Kutch region in the past 24 hours. With these deaths, the toll has risen to 43 in the state. On Monday, reports of samples of two persons sent to Rajkot tested positive for the flu. These include a 37-year-old man …
ROURKELA: The mild form of H1N1 virus seems to be gripping newer areas with nearly 100 villagers of Tileimunda in Rajgangpur block showing influenza-like symptoms. However, underplaying the incident, doctors attributed the scare to
THE race among Indian pharma companies engaged in swine flu vaccine development may soon throw up a winner just when the pandemic enters a critical stage with the onset of winter. Drug Controller General (India) Dr Surindra Singh told ET that the Rs 3,000-crore pharma major Zydus Group has become …
BHUBANESAR / ROURKELA: There are two baffling facts about the way the H1N1 virus has cut loose in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district, none of which has actually been attended to by the health administration as yet. A good eight days after the first two positive cases of H1N1 were reported …
REEDA Shaikh's house is lonely and silent, as if death still lurks in all corners. Both her sisters are not allowed to go own to play and have only recently joined school. The Country's first victim of swine u, Reeda died on August 3 and it seems as if a …
Sri Lanka's Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry today confirmed that the death of 16-year old boy in Kandy was due to the complications from the Influenza A-H1N1 commonly known as Swine Flu. This is the first death reported in Sri Lanka due to the H1N1 since the first H1N1 …
BHUBANESWAR: Intriguing as it may sound, the H1N1 virus has unleashed itself in a remote pocket of tribal district of Sundargarh with little or no known exposure to outside world. Six days after the Jampali Kanyashram threw up two positive cases, the Health Department is still at its wit
Tardy response by govt & cool weather allow the virus to spread rapidly Never before in Pune has a sneeze in a crowded place triggered so much panic and anxiety. Reason: swine flu has caused 100 deaths so far in the city in just over three months since 14-year-old schoolgirl …
Mohini Santosh Undre, 28, of Manjri in Haveli taluka died at 4.30 am at the Noble Hospital in Hadapsar. Doctors who treated Undre said she had tested positive for H1N1, and was suffering from bilateral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). With Pune recording the maximum number of swine …
Tests have confirmed the flu spreading in Parbat and Baglung since last two weeks are mostly swine flu, Nagarik daily reported quoting health officials. Nine out of 12 samples collected from Kushma bazaar have tested positive to Pandemic Influenza H1N1. Five of them were army men working at Naya Bhairavi …
Even as India prepares to introduce an indigenous swine flu vaccine in the market, experts have pointed out that the necessary precautions for protection from the H1N1 virus need to be taken even after getting the flu shot, as the vaccine takes two weeks to develop immunity against the virus. …
Pune Two persons died of H1N1 at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital in Pimpri, taking the death toll to 99 in Pune district. On Tuesday, Navnath Thombre from Chakan in Khed taluka died at YCM hospital, Pimpri. Hospital authorities said he had been brought to the hospital on October 30 and …
BHUBANESWAR: With H1N1 gripping a tribal residential school in a remote part of Sundargarh, the Health administration was clueless as to how the inmates contracted the virus. The possibility of a community spread of the disease loomed large. More than half the inmates of the all-girl residential school at Jamapali …
