The study, conducted by the Sir Gangaram Hospital, has found that 52.9 per cent of the 151 patients analysed “had one or more co-existing medical conditions” and mortality was found in 8 per cent o

Five new fresh cases of swine flu were reported in Rajasthan on Wednesday making the total number of cases 245 in this season so far since January 1.

With swine flu (H1N1) positive cases increasing in the district since the last two months, health experts are worried about mutation in the virus strain and the virus' adaptability to seasonal chan

Summers are here and so are ailments related to the hot weather conditions. Suspected dengue patients have started arriving at hospitals in the city.

Swine flu claimed yet another life in the city on Monday when a 52-year-old man from Junagadh succumbed to the deadly virus.

MUMBAI: An 18-month-old boy became the first casualty of the H1N1 virus, previously known as swine flu, in the city in the last two years.

Twenty-two people have lost their lives in Telangana due to swine flu and related complications since August last year, the government said on Tuesday.

The death toll is till May 1.

Avian H9N2 and 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza viruses can infect pigs and humans, raising the concern that H9N2:pH1N1 reassortant viruses could emerge. Such reassortants demonstrated increased replication and transmissibility in pig, but were still inefficient when compared to pH1N1. Here, we evaluated if a reassortant virus containing the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase of A/quail/Hong Kong/G1/1997 (H9N2) in the A/California/04/2009 (pH1N1) backbone could become better adapted to pigs by serial passaging.

H1N1 virus has seen a rise in the entire south Indian region said a State Nodal Officer for H1N1.

Deadly infectious pandemics will mark humanity's future, as they have shaped its past. Neither individual governments nor the global community can entirely prevent the emergence of infectious threats. But we can be much better prepared.

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