Tests have confirmed the flu spreading in Parbat and Baglung since last two weeks are mostly swine flu, Nagarik daily reported quoting health officials. Nine out of 12 samples collected from Kushma bazaar have tested positive to Pandemic Influenza H1N1.
Five of them were army men working at Naya Bhairavi Dal Battalion based in Kushma Bazaar, district headquarters of Parbat.
Even as India prepares to introduce an indigenous swine flu vaccine in the market, experts have pointed out that the necessary precautions for protection from the H1N1 virus need to be taken even after getting the flu shot, as the vaccine takes two weeks to develop immunity against the virus.
Pune Two persons died of H1N1 at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital in Pimpri, taking the death toll to 99 in Pune district.
On Tuesday, Navnath Thombre from Chakan in Khed taluka died at YCM hospital, Pimpri. Hospital authorities said he had been brought to the hospital on October 30 and was on ventilator since.
BHUBANESWAR: With H1N1 gripping a tribal residential school in a remote part of Sundargarh, the Health administration was clueless as to how the inmates contracted the virus. The possibility of a community spread of the disease loomed large.
New Delhi: Five months after the first case of H1N1 influenza was reported in India, the panic surrounding it has subsided. Till a month back, close to 100 new cases were being confirmed every day while at present the number is around 10-12. Experts feared the
BHUBANESWAR: This was the last thing that the Orissa government needed. Swine flu scare which has so far been limited to urban centres of the State has now surfaced in rural region.
Confronted with an unrelenting spread of the H1N1 virus in the urban, semi-urban and rural areas in and around Pune which claimed its first Swine flu fatality on August 3, the state health authorities are eagerly awaiting the findings of a research undertaken by National Institute of Virology (NIV) here on herd immunity.
