AHMEDABAD: Private doctors in the state have been directed to report any person showing symptoms of H1N1 who may have missed the surveillance system at the international airport terminal. This is possible because the virus has an incubation of seven to 10 days.
NEW DELHI: Three more persons, including a three-year-old girl who travelled to Bangalore from New Jersey on June 12 with her mother, tested positive for the A (H1N1) influenza virus. Her mother too has tested positive for the flu.
Several persons across the country manifesting symptoms are being tested.
The new H1N1 virus, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, appears to have been circulating undetected among pigs for years, researchers reported on Thursday.
Although health officials have been watching for new influenza viruses in humans, animal health regulators have missed the opportunity to check swine, the researchers reported.
Pune. Mumbai: Swine flu in India is not yet pandemic, but it is certainly creating panic in parts of the country. Fear is mounting as the number of infected persons continues to grow -- though only 20 cases of the disease have been confirmed nationwide, so far -- and worried people are doing the rounds of hospitals.
* H1N1 spreads: Case count 20
* H1N1 has been around for years
June 14: Three more air passengers were confirmed with swine flu on Sunday, taking the total number of A-H1N1 cases in the city to 12. Five of them are under treatment at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, while the others have been discharged.
Even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) as a global pandemic, the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) maintains that there is no role of animals (including swine) in spreading this virus. This, being a human disease, is basically a public health issue.
NO KIDDING: A masked girl sits with a classmate at a kindergarten in Hong Kong on Thursday in the wake of the swine flu alarm.
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation told its member nations on Thursday it was declaring a swine flu pandemic
Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: Though the World Health Organisation on Thursday declared an A (H1N1) influenza pandemic, putting the affected countries on the highest alert, India continues to be in the
NEW DELHI: With five more suspected cases of A(H1NI) infection reported from Delhi and Mumbai, the Committee of Secretaries on Wednesday reviewed the situation in the country.
According to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, two cases were reported from Delhi, while three were reported from Mumbai.
