May 19: Two persons who came from the US were admitted on Tuesday to the AP Chest Hospital for suspected swine flu symptoms. One of them is a two-year-old boy.
The baby landed at Shamshabad airport with his parents on May 16. The parents admitted the boy to the Chest Hospital after he developed swine flu symptoms.
GENEVA/TOKYO: The new flu strain is spreading widely in the United States and Japan and is likely to circulate worldwide, health officials said on Monday.
A 23-year old youth belonging to Hyderabad was tested positive for the H1N1 strain of virus that causes swine flu. This is first confirmed case of swine flu in the country.
The test was conducted by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in New Delhi and the report was delivered to the Government Chest Hospital here on Saturday.
The world health organisation (WHO) has provided two million capsules of generic Oseltamivir, known as Tamiflu as brand name, to the government as a part of its global pandemic influenza preparedness programnmes.
Two co-passengers of the 23year-old Hyderabad resident, who had come from the US and was detected to be infected with Influenza A(H1N1), commonly known as the swine flu, were on Monday put under observation in a government hospital in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad: The 23-year-old student, who was the first person to suffer from swine flu in India, is stable and recovering at the Government General and Chest Hospital at Erragadda. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi, found evidence of the H1N1 strain in throat secretions and blood samples of the student of Indiana University, Bloomington.
Two shots of measles vaccine given during childhood protect a person for life. Four shots of polio vaccine do the same. But flu shots must be taken every year. And even so, they provide less than complete protection.
Old Ways A hurdle to faster flu vaccine production is that current methods use chicken eggs to grow the virus.
