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 …
Pune: The number of swine flu deaths in Maharashtra in March this year was more than thrice the number registered in the same month last year. While nine deaths were reported last March, the figure stood at 30 in the same month this year. Since January, 43 of the 242 …
Temperature Fluctuation, Depleting Immunity Contributing Factors Pune: Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have seen a rise of 10% to 15% in swine flu cases in March. “The virus transmission earlier was not more than 2%. We have observed a sharp rise in the transmissibility of the swine …
Four people in East China's Jiangsu province have been confirmed as being infected with the lesser-known H7N9 bird flu, local authorities said Tuesday. Low risk for humans to contract H7N9 bird flu China's health authority said humans are at a very low risk for contracting the lesser-known H7N9 bird flu, …
H7N9 Variant, Which Has Never Been Seen In Humans Before, Infects One More Person Beijing: Two Shanghai men have died from a little-known strain of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain and a third is under treatment, Chinese official sources said on Sunday. Both the …
AHMEDABAD: Around 4.30pm on October 30, 2009, a press conference was being addressed by top industrialists and bureaucrats who had returned with chief minister Narendra Modi from Russia. The press conference had just ended when this journalist got an SMS stating that Modi had been detected with swine flu. Apparently, …
Jaipur: The state government’s efforts for providing free medicines and other initiatives in the health sector are commendable, but as far as tackling medical emergencies like swine flu is concerned, it still needs to learn a lot from other states. According to the report of the ministry of health, Gujarat …
Pune: Two more persons have died of swine flu, one in Pune and the other in Pimpri Chinchwad, taking the total number of deaths due to the infection in both cities to 20 since January. Of these, 13 have occurred in March. “Santosh Gawade (32), of Jawale village in Ambegaon …
A decade after severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, swept through Hong Kong and then around the world, the city is among the first to become worried about the emergence and spread of another, genetically related virus in the Middle East. Medical researchers emphasize that they do not know if …
Australia - Two palliative care patients in a nursing home have died due to flu outbreak in Australia's North Queensland, local media reported on Thursday. Altogether 14 residents at the Mackay nursing home have tested positive for Influenza A and seven others have been hospitalized over the past couple of …
Two more patients — a 12-year-old girl and a woman in Rawalpindi — have contracted Swine Flu (H1 N1 influenza) as their throat swaps sent to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad for analysis confirmed the virus on Saturday. A senior official of the health department told Dawn that the …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Thursday asked the state government to find out which private hospitals deny treatment to swine flu patients. Justice Anant Dave even inquired what action can be taken against such hospitals for such gestures. Earlier this week, TOI had reported that various private hospitals refuse to …
Swine flu cases have reached epidemic proportions in Gujarat with 121 deaths, most of them females between 15 and 45 years of age, during the past two-and-a-half months. Besides, at least 652 people have been detected positive for H1N1 virus. In comparison, only 30 deaths were reported last year out …
Pune: Swine flu has claimed 20 lives in the state since January, nine in March alone, say state health officials. Among the total number of casualties, Pune district accounts for the highest number (10), said state surveillance officer Pradip Awate. “Six people died of H1N1 influenza within Pune municipal limits …
BHOPAL: H1N1 influenza is back. First positive case was detected in the state capital on Monday after two weeks. According to health officials, a 50-year-old patient is in critical condition and undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Bhopal. Meanwhile, swab samples of six suspected persons of H1N1 were sent …
AHMEDABAD: The H1N1 virus's new avatar has just got deadlier than its initial version in 2009. On August 9, 2009, Gujarat reported its first swine flu casualty - that of 43-year-old NRI Pravin Patel. Between May and December that year, the state reported 697 cases of the flu and 125 …
AHMEDABAD: The rate at which the swine flu virus has been engulfing a restricted number of districts in Saurashtra has been worrying state health department. Climatic conditions like humidity and temperature are two main reasons for the rapid spread of the virus in this zone, according to health experts. But …
Rejects Congress demand for discussion on H1N1 infections in state which has claimed over hundred lives The Gujarat assembly speaker Vaju Vala on Thursday rejected demand of the opposition Congress seeking discussion on swine flu deaths in the state on the grounds that the situation was not in nature of …
Two more swine flu deaths were reported from the capital on Wednesday, taking the death toll from the H1N1 virus to 15, since January 1. According to Health department officials, a 53-year-old woman admitted to Apollo Hospitals died on Tuesday evening, while a 45-year-old man admitted to Madan Mohan Malviya …
Vietnam is facing a high risk of bird flu outbreaks due to unfavorable weather conditions which reduce the animals' resistance according to the Animal Health Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Wednesday. The disease has recurred in five provinces of northern Dien Bien, central Khanh …
In Delhi, the death toll due to H1N1 has risen to 13 cases with a 58-year-old woman succumbing to the virus at Kalra Hospital. The death of the resident of Uttam Nagar was today confirmed by the Delhi health department and with 36 fresh cases of the influenza recorded today, …
