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 …
Swine flu virus is mild; unpreparedness resulted in panic fifteen-year-old Preshita Padhye tested positive for H1N1 virus on July 27. She spent the next five days at the isolation ward of the Aundh general hospital in Pune.
It will result in immunity Influenza A (H1N1) is a mild viral strain. Though it is highly infectious, it has low mortality. It kills mostly those who have complications like pneumonia or underlying chronic diseases such as diabetes or asthma. Worldwide, swine flu mortality is 1 per cent.
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The IEDCR has confirmed the death of another swine flu positive patient in Dhaka, which took the official count of casualties from the special strain of influenza to three. Two more persons who had H1N1 symptoms died, however. "Authorities have confirmed deaths of three H1N1 positive patients so far. The …
The worst is still not over for India as World Health Organisation has warned of an increasing trend of the pandemic in the country. The H1N1 virus has spread to 28 States and claimed over 175 lives so far. Health Ministry sources report that WHO has termed the number of …
R. Prasad CHENNAI: Preliminary analyses of the early data from two vaccine trials in the U.S. have shown that the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) vaccines are safe and the immune responses produced are robust. , The preliminary results from these two trials are similar to those of the two vaccines that …
MUMBAI: The BMC has upgraded guidelines for paediatric patients testing positive for H1N1. The upgradation of guidelines becomes even more important as two infants had succumbed to swine flu on Saturday. According to the new guidelines, now, not only children with respiratory distress but also those with high fever, poor …
State Has Highest H1N1 Death Rate In Country Paul John & Radha Sharma | TNN Ahmedabad: Data put up on the Union ministry of health and family welfare website clearly shows that Gujarat has the highest swine flu death rate in the country. One in every 10 H1N1 positive patient …
Defying the expectations of experts, clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with only one dose instead of two, so the vaccine supplies now being made will go twice as far as had been predicted. That means it should be possible to vaccinate
R. Prasad CHENNAI: A study to be published in the October issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases has found that using rapid diagnostic tests (the antigen-based testing) for detecting A(H1N1) infection is not advisable because their sensitivity (the ability to detect positive cases) is low. Of the 144 samples …
Mumbai: Hardly had citizens got over the swine flu, malaria, gastroenteritis, and jaundice when cholera has caught certain areas of Mumbai in its grip. As many as 12 patients, all residents of Carvel Street, Ramwadi, Kalbadevi, were admitted to hospital with symptoms of cholera. Eleven of them were admitted to …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Pandemic swine flu infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu does, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology. The researchersfrom Imperial College London who conducted the research, say this may explain why people infected with the pandemic strain of swine-origin H1N1 …
The World Health Organisation noticed it first. Now, scientists from Imperial College, London, know why. A study of the H1N1 swine flu virus isolated in US and Europe by British scientists found that the pandemic strain had the advanced ability to infect cells deep in the lungs which the seasonal …
Following the recent death of four pregnant women in the state due to H1N1, the state government has begun drafting a new treatment protocol for these high-risk patients. Health officials will be collecting swab samples of pregnant patients reporting to the screening centres and those will be
A child reportedly died of swine flu as the deadly global pandemic virus claimed a second victim in Bangladesh, government authorities confirmed on Thursday. Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Director Prof Mahmudur Rahman revealed the second casualty from the H1N1 virus at a press briefing. "A three-month …
The global swine flu pandemic will expose the failure of the international community to invest in health protection in poor countries, the world's top health official warned here yesterday. World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan said the pandemic would "test the world on the issue of fairness," as she …
The national Capital today reported a record number of 84 fresh cases of swine flu. Thirty eight of these 84 victims are children. With this the total tally of people infected with influenza A (H1N1) in Delhi has reached 994. However, city health minister Kiran Walia said that the situation …
