Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported recently.

A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

At least two people succumbed to influenza A (H1N1) in Delhi on today, taking the death toll in the capital to 13, health authorities said.

While one person died in a private hospital, a 22-year-old man died at the Safdarjung Hospital. Though the details of the first person were unavailable, the second patient was suffering from pneumonia and respiratory distress and was under ventilation.

Mumbai Three people in the state died of H1N1 over the weekend taking the death toll to 124. Two of them died in Mumbai, one at civic-run King Edward Memorial Hospital and the other at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.

Five more persons succumbed to swine flu while 178 fresh cases of the disease were reported from across the country on Tuesday.

With this, the number of deaths due to swine flu has reached 308 while those affected have crossed 10,000, according to the Union Health Ministry.

Sept. 29: Swine flu claimed two more lives in the city on Tuesday taking the death toll to 34. Both the deaths were reported at Gandhi Hospital.
The patients were admitted to the hospital with acute pneumonia which they developed due to the H1N1 virus.
They were identified as Kavitha, 29, and Vinayak, 25. Sources said both died while they were put on the ventilator.

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NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has issued an advisory to those undertaking the Haj pilgrimage this year in view of the swine flu outbreak across the globe.

A12-year-old girl, who was rushed to a Chandigarh hospital in a serious condition, became city

While the country had reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) from 2006-08 and experts had questioned the role of migratory birds in the transmission of the virus, a latest study by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) and city-based Ela Foundation has given a clean chit to these birds, as none of them had tested positive for H5N1.

At least 232 H1N1 positive cases have been detected in the last two weeks, taking the tally of people infected with swine flu in Bangladesh to 604.

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