Mumbai: Swine flu caused by the H1N1 virus is returning with a vengeance after striking big last year, health officials here have warned. The pandemic claimed 472 lives in Maharashtra alone from April 2009 onward, according to data available from the state health department.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A total of 9,783 fever cases were reported in the state on Monday out of which 11 cases of dengue fever and two cases of malaria have been detected.
THE government has alerted authorities in six bordering districts of the State after 11 new cases of swine flu were reported from neighbouring Kerala in the last two days.
Thiruvananthapuram: In response to a request from Kerala, a team of public health experts deputed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will be in the State during the week to conduct an epidemiological study into the re-emergence of the A(H1N1) virus in Kerala during the monsoon season and its behaviour.
At least 195 cases of Influenza A (H1N1), including 36 on Saturday, have been reported in the State, in the latest contagion raging since May this year. Pre-monsoon showers, followed by the arrival of south-west monsoon, have only hastened the pace of spread of infections, according to officials in the State Government. Thiruvananthapuram district (13) reported the most number on Saturday.
A year after the World Health Organisation declared an Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has raised
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With swine flu infections recurring in Kerala, the state authorities today put the number of positive cases at 15 even as they stepped up preventive and awareness campaign across the districts.
Mumbai An H1N1 patient was moved out of the ICU of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion on Monday and kept in a room easily accessible to any visitor. She spent all day in the room in ward 20, where her husband visited her without protection, before the BMC finally had her shifted back to ICU.
After lying dormant for a while, H1N1 has again started spreading in Kerala, with seven persons dying of H1N1 infection in the last three weeks.
Dr Amar S. Fettle, nodal officer for H1N1 in the state, told this newspaper that the virus, which was dormant during summer, had become active after the rains started in the first week of May.
