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 …
Scientists have found that the two drugs used across the world to treat swine flu — Tamiflu and Relenza — are no better than Paracetamol in relieving flu symptoms and are next to useless in preventing a pandemic. Many countries including India have spent millions of dollars in stockpiling these …
Contrary to the havoc that the H1N1 influenza pandemic created in 2009, a new study has found that around 1 in 5 of the population were infected by the recent outbreak of H1N1 and seasonal flu. According to the study published in the Lancet, just 23 per cent of these …
Surat: Two patients, who tested positive for swine flu infection, are at present under treatment at two private hospitals in the city. They were suffering from cold and cough for the last one week. A 28-year-old man, who is a resident of Palanpur Patia, was admitted to a hospital here …
Another swine flue case has surfaced in Multan after which the toll has reached five in the district. According to Health Department sources, ward no 27 of the Nishtar Hospital in Multan has been converted into an isolation ward for the swine flue patients. According to sources, another patient brought …
The Directorate of Animal Health has urged owners of poultry farms to subject their birds to bird flu tests. The appeal came after bird flu surfaced in two poultry farms in Itahari. “We have urged owners of poultry farms to conduct H5N1 tests if a large number of chickens die …
Dr Vikas Suri and Dr Ashish Bhalla from Chandigarh said children less than a year old and people suffering from diabetes, AIDS, cancer, etc were at high risk of catching the H1N1 virus. They were addressing the gathering at the 69th annual conference of Association of Physicians of India (API) …
Two more people were confirmed to be infected with H7N9 bird flu in two provinces, health authorities said Monday. Infection of a man, 63, from Lujiang County in east China's Anhui Province was confirmed on Sunday, according to the provincial health department. The man is in critical condition. Four cases …
The new bird flu that’s infected two people in China, killing one, was spawned by the same pathogen that produced two other deadly flu strains, a study found. The H10N8 strain, which hasn’t previously been reported in humans, contains six out of eight genes from the H9N2 virus that also …
Four Chinese regions reported a total of 10 human cases of H7N9 bird flu on Wednesday. Health authorities in the southern province of Guangdong said four more human H7N9 infections were confirmed on Tuesday. Neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Fujian Province each confirmed one more case. Also popular: China …
A 59-year-old man having close contact with live poultry died on Monday morning of the H7N9 flu virus, the first of its kind in central China's Hunan province, local authority said. A separate statement issued by the health department of Guangdong province on Monday said a patient surnamed Xie died …
Six more people in China have been confirmed as infected with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu and one of them has died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. Three of the other five patients are in either a serious or a critical condition in hospital, while …
The government has provided a total of Rs 231.7 million in compensation to poultry farmers hit by bird flu this year. The avian flu outbreak during mid-July to mid September period affected farmers from 12 districts. Besides three districts in the Kathmandu valley, the districts that were hit hard were …
An outbreak of H5N2 bird flu in poultry has been reported in north China's Hebei Province, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced on Saturday. The disease has killed 4,000 chickens raised by a farm in Baoding City after they showed symptoms of the suspected avian flu on December 17, according …
The Ministry of Agriculture Development has so far provided a compensation of 211 million 679 thousand rupees to the poultry farmers and businesses concerned for the loss of chicks, eggs, bird feed and chicken due to the spread of bird flu at six different places. The rapid spread of avian …
With the drop of mercury at new levels, the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are in grip of infectious diseases including sore throat,cough, influenza and temperature. Local hospitals and clinics are seeing an increase in number of patients suffering with diseases related to dry weather. Most patients, especially children, …
A 20-year-old woman who was hospitalised in Taiwan in May 2013 with shortness of breath has been found to be infected with a novel H6N1 avian influenza virus subtype. The woman did not come in contact with poultry or have a travel history three months prior to getting infected with …
Chinese researchers announced Saturday they had successfully developed the vaccine for the H7N9 bird flu virus, after the flu strain had left more than 130 people infected, with 45 fatalities reported. Shu Yuelong, director of the Chinese National Influenza Center, said this is the first influenza vaccine ever developed by …
The goal of influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance is to determine the timing, location and magnitude of outbreaks by monitoring the frequency and progression of clinical case incidence. Advances in computational and information technology have allowed for automated collection of higher volumes of electronic data and more timely analyses than previously …
Cites “high risk” of occurrence of avian influenza after monsoon as in the past The Centre has alerted States on post-monsoon outbreak of highly contagious avian influenza or Bird Flu, which has the potential to be transmitted from birds and poultry to human beings (zoonotic risk). In an advisory to …
The H1N1 influenza has emerged as the biggest killer in Maharashtra this year cl-a-i-ming three times the number of lives taken by dengue and malaria put together, and six times if compared individually. Initially termed as swine flu, the virus has also shown a worryingly high mortality rate with almost …
