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 …
COIMBATORE: The number of A (H1N1) flu positive cases in Coimbatore rose to 109 on Tuesday with four more persons being added to the list. Health officials said a student of a women
THE government has decided to let Anglo-American drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) conduct human trials of its swine flu vaccine here to make it available for patients by the year-end, director-general health services (DGHS) Dr RK Srivastava said. The vaccine is likely to be launched in India by December 2009 if the …
Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Minister Kuzholuzo Nienu yesterday declared that his is well prepared to tackle the H1N1 influenza (Swine Flu) in the State. Briefing newsmen in Kohima, the Minister assured that the State has sufficient stock of Tamiflu, the anti-biotic used for treatment of Swine flu, in case …
Thomas Chandy The media storm and the government action on the A(H1N1) flu are warranted, but should not steps to meet infant mortality and malnutrition become national priorities, too? Since August 4, 2009, when the death of a girl from the A(H1N1) flu was reported in Pune, the insatiable media …
Hypotheses about the genesis of novel H1N1 influenza (the pandemic strain of swine flu) range far and wide. Some public health and epidemiology experts are taking a fresh look at concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) , which they say provide ideal conditions that facilitate the mutation of viral pathogens into …
The new H1N1 swine flu is estimated to have infected about 800,000 people in New York City in the spring, a top U.S. health official said on Sunday, citing a study due to be released later this week. Dr. Thomas Frieden, who heads the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …
New Delhi: An increasing number of countries are reporting that the H1N1 virus is becoming Tamiflu-resistant. According to WHO, the worrying development has been seen in 12 countries, including China and Singapore. India has not reported the mutation so far. The changes in the virus reported in samples are making …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 31, 2009, 0:23 IST Detection of the H1N1 influenza virus in turkey birds in Chile has heightened the danger of poultry farms elsewhere also getting infected with this pandemic virus, which has already killed nearly 90 people in India and over 2,000 persons worldwide. …
Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients infected with the …
The country has recorded 19 more new swine flu cases in the last 24 hours after health authorities were blamed for lax screening of suspected people on arrival at Zia International Airport, country's main entry point. "We have recorded 19 fresh A H1N1 virus infected people in the country and …
THANKS to some mindless frenzy whipped up by the media, we are terribly concerned about swine flu, because deaths in double digits have been recorded in a country of a billion people. One wonders why the press has never been even mildly vociferous about the pathetic hygiene standards of our …
THE central government has negotiated a price of Rs 4,000 with 16 private labs across the country for testing samples to detect swine flu, director general-health services (DGHS) RK Srivastava has said. The labs identified by the government for testing swine flu samples include Super Religare Laboratories (SRL), Auroprobe, Dr …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The detection of H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile has raised concerns about poultry farms elsewhere in the world also becoming infected with the pandemic flu virus, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. Chilean authorities last week reported the presence of the pandemic …
Aug. 27: Union health ministry on Thursday said its "limited analysis" on deaths due to H1N1 influenza virus has revealed that most of the patients were brought in for treatment at a very late stage. The ministry also feels that 14-44 years is vulnerable age-group to be affected by the …
Most people who died due to swine flu in the country reported to hospitals with very severe cough and breathlessness. This was revealed in a study of the first 33 out of the total 78 deaths in the country. Meanwhile, swine flu has claimed three more lives, taking the countrywide …
Although the first batch of swine flu vaccines are supposed to be ready and licenced by October, most healthcare workers do not want to be the first to be vaccinated. The reason behind the reluctance is the 1976 swine flu fiasco in the US when the vaccine supposedly killed 25 …
With four more swine flu deaths in Banglaore and one in Pune, the national toll touched 74 on Wednesday. The total number of those afflicted with H1N1 virus rose to 3,095 with more cases detected across India. In Bangalore, the swab test of Muni Rathnam, who died at St Philomena
