Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The detection of H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile has raised concerns about poultry farms elsewhere in the world also becoming infected with the pandemic flu virus, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday.

Aug. 27: Union health ministry on Thursday said its "limited analysis" on deaths due to H1N1 influenza virus has revealed that most of the patients were brought in for treatment at a very late stage. The ministry also feels that 14-44 years is vulnerable age-group to be affected by the virus, which has so far claimed 78 lives in the country.

Most people who died due to swine flu in the country reported to hospitals with very severe cough and breathlessness. This was revealed in a study of the first 33 out of the total 78 deaths in the country. Meanwhile, swine flu has claimed three more lives, taking the countrywide toll to 88.

Although the first batch of swine flu vaccines are supposed to be ready and licenced by October, most healthcare workers do not want to be the first to be vaccinated. The reason behind the reluctance is the 1976 swine flu fiasco in the US when the vaccine supposedly killed 25 people while the virus only claimed one life.

With four more swine flu deaths in Banglaore and one in Pune, the national toll touched 74 on Wednesday. The total number of those afflicted with H1N1 virus rose to 3,095 with more cases detected across India.

NAYAGARH: Even though no suspected swine flu case has been detected in the district, the health administration is battle-ready for a possible outbreak. ADMO (Public Health) DR Mishra told this to mediapersons here on Saturday.

A District Rapid Response Team (DRRT) with CDMO, ADMO (PH), a medicine specialist and a paediatric specialist as its members has been constituted, Mishra informed.

Although the first batch of swine flu vaccines are supposed to be ready and licenced by October, most healthcare workers do not want to be the first to be vaccinated. The reason behind the reluctance is the 1976 swine flu fiasco in the US when the vaccine supposedly killed 25 people while the virus only claimed one life.

A study in the British medical journal Lancet has found that children suffering from swine flu may not show signs typical of the virus but report other symptoms which doctors must watch out for.

The observations have been made by doctors in Birmingham, UK, after studying the first wave of paediatric admissions for H1N1.

People who die after getting swine flu are 100 times more likely, compared to seasonal flu, to have been killed by the virus itself rather than secondary causes, a top French researcher said Monday.

Up to 90,000 deaths from swine flu in the United States, mostly among children and young people?

Up to 1.8 million people hospitalized, with 50 percent to 100 percent of the intensive-care beds in some cities filled with swine flu patients?

Up to half the population infected by this winter?

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