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 …
NAYAGARH: Even though no suspected swine flu case has been detected in the district, the health administration is battle-ready for a possible outbreak. ADMO (Public Health) DR Mishra told this to mediapersons here on Saturday. A District Rapid Response Team (DRRT) with CDMO, ADMO (PH), a medicine specialist and a …
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 …
A study in the British medical journal Lancet has found that children suffering from swine flu may not show signs typical of the virus but report other symptoms which doctors must watch out for. The observations have been made by doctors in Birmingham, UK, after studying the first wave of …
People who die after getting swine flu are 100 times more likely, compared to seasonal flu, to have been killed by the virus itself rather than secondary causes, a top French researcher said Monday. The findings -- published on a research-sharing platform, PLoS Currents: Influenza, vetted by flu experts -- …
Up to 90,000 deaths from swine flu in the United States, mostly among children and young people? Up to 1.8 million people hospitalized, with 50 percent to 100 percent of the intensive-care beds in some cities filled with swine flu patients? Up to half the population infected by this winter? …
Namrata Biji Ahuja Aug. 25: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has found deficiencies in the 18 laboratories nominated by the health and family welfare ministry for testing suspected swine flu cases. The apex body for disaster management in the country, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has asked the …
MUMBAI: With the city's swine-flu toll reaching eight on Sunday, the BMC has begun going to households to keep a check on the disease. The idea is to reach out to the maximum number of people. Up to Monday, healthcare workers had covered 56,735 people. Of these, 11,354 people were …
Jammu : Though swine flu has not assumed alarming proportion in the state, the government has decided to set up two testing laboratories in Jammu and Srinagar. According to official sources, on the directions of Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma, Jammu too would have a testing lab for the H1N1 …
One week, 17 deaths and over 1,000 confirmed cases. You can count the days on your fingers, but not the victims of the new public health menace -the H1N1 flu. "Its speed is without precedent," says Dr Randeep Guleria, professor of Internal Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical …
Bharuch Resident Dies In Vadodara; Positive Cases Climb To 92 In State Vadodara: The march of the deadly swine flu continues in the state with the virus claiming its sixth life on Sunday. Hasmukh Hingoo, 47, resident of Bharuch, who was admitted to SSG Hospital (SSGH) in Vadodara on August …
In the midst of a busy calendar when the nation is in the grip of a new and unusual global pandemic, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad spoke to Deputy Editor Damayanti Datta. Excerpts: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Q. The H1N1 virus has arrived finally in India and …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Five more swine flu cases have been reported in the state on Sunday. Three cases have been reported from Thiruvananthapuram district and one each from Malappuram and Kannur. The total number of swine flu cases in state has now risen to 116, an official release here said. As part …
BHUBANESWAR: Two persons of the 27 people, whose swab samples were sent for swine flu test from Orissa, have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, official sources said today. The two patients have been discharged from SCB Medical College Hospital and asked to come for further check-up after a week, …
People affected with A(H1N1) influenza will soon get treatment free of cost in the State. This was announced by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa after a review meeting on Saturday. File photoThe State Government will bear the expenses of patients who undergo swab tests and treatment at private hospitals. To …
The Capital reported 11 new cases of H1N1 on Sunday. Of these, four patients have a history of foreign travel, the other seven are indigenous cases. After the Capital logged its first two deaths due to the virus on Thursday, two patients
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 24, 2009, 1:36 IST Fresh guidelines for managing patients of H1N1 swine flu virus, issued yesterday by the United Nations health body, lay stress on the selective use of anti-viral drugs oseltamivir (tamiflu) and zanamivir to prevent serious illness and deaths and reduce need …
As the August 7 clinical trials of an H1N1 vaccine in the US have found it to be safe, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has announced two trials involving children. The decision was taken after the Safety Monitoring Committee recommended on August 18 that trials of …
Aug. 22: Nine more cases of swine flu were reported in the state on Saturday, taking the count of H1N1 positive cases to 100. According to the district medical and health officer, Dr Ch Jayakumari, nine of 36 cases which were referred to the Institute of Preventive Medicine tested positive. …
From Mexico to Pune, swine flu is spreading more fear than disease. DIVYA GUPTA maps the hysteria Cautious? A Mumbai school teacher helps kids with masks given by the Shiv Sena WHILE DEALING with global pandemics, it is best to dispel the biggest myths surrounding them first. The
