Mexican president asks citizens to stay home from May 1-5, WHO raises alert level to 5
Mexican President Felipe Calderon told his people to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organization (WHO) said a swine flu pandemic was imminent.
It raised its alert level to phase 5, the last step before a pandemic.
With the global swine flu virus spread seemingly not under control, the Indian distributor of a recently started unique air purification system has approached the government with an invention claimed to stop the infection
AGARTALA/IMPHAL April 30: Tripura Government has sounded an alert in the state to check an outbreak of the deadly swine flu, official sources said today. The decision to issue the alert was taken last night at a meeting chaired by principal secretary of the Health department Yash Pal Singh.Two health directors S R Debbarma and R K Dhar were also present at the meeting.
"Twenty four doctors are already on duty at BIA to screen international passengers", Regional Director Health & Family Welfare Services, Dr Anbazhagan said.
April 30: As swine flu panic gripped the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has served notice to pig breeders to take their animals away from human habitations.
The city has over three dozen pig breeding centres and a swine population of 20,000. Pigs are reared mainly by the Erukala community as a livelihood.
Diversification of livestock breeds in commercial animal farms and mass production of strain-specific vaccines can help fight diseases like swine flu
Business Standard / New Delhi April 30, 2009, 0:37 IST
Underscoring the significance of individual measures that served as the first line of defence against any influenza virus, speakers at a discussion on swine flu said that though the virus seemed to be getting less virulent with time, there was a dire need to create awareness about it and take preventive measures since the disease had now become a global threat.
