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Posted - 04/27/2009 : 19:05:35
'Swine flu more dangerous than bird flu'
Melbourne (PTI): Swine flu, which has killed more than 100 people in Mexico is more dangerous than bird flu as it "rapidly spreads", an expert has said even as Australia took series of steps including 'flight screening' for passengers coming from America to protect itself from the outbreak.
Swine flu is more worrying to humans than bird flu because it has the potential to spread to more people, Paul Kelly from Australian National University said.
Mr. Kelly said while swine flu had claimed many lives in Mexico, there had been no deaths elsewhere.
Those killed have been generally young and otherwise healthy. "It's not the typical people that are at greatest risk during a normal flu season," he was quoted as saying by media reports.
Meanwhile, Australian experts said that existing vaccines are unlikely to be effective against an outbreak of swine flu, but anti-viral drugs can help to combat it.
Health officials have given advice about the outbreak to GPs and hospital emergency departments and want any suspected cases to be reported to authorities.
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Posted - 03/13/2010 : 03:26:06
Till date, samples from 130281 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in Government Laboratories and a few private Laboratories across the country and 29926(22.9%) of them have been found positive.
2. All 22 cases reported during the day are indigenous cases.
3. Two deaths (Madhya Pradesh) have been reported during the day.
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http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=59546 |
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Posted - 03/02/2010 : 09:00:54
.Till date, samples from 128944 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in Government Laboratories and a few private Laboratories across the country and 29710(23.04%) of them have been found positive.
http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=58654
2. All 35 cases reported during the day are indigenous cases.
3 .1 death (Maharashtra) has been reported during the day.
4. Reports of two earlier deaths (Rajasthan-1 & Punjab-1) have been eceived from the health authorities of the respective state and is reflected in the cumulative total.
5.* Includes results of samples collected on 27Th & 28th February & 1st March 2010. |
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Posted - 02/22/2010 : 09:29:20
http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=58062
Till date, samples from 127706 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in Government Laboratories and a few private Laboratories across the country and 29522(23.1%) of them have been found positive.
2. All 32 cases reported during the day are indigenous cases.
3. Three deaths (Maharashtra) were reported during the day.
4. Report of two earlier deaths (Madhya Pradesh-1 and Chhattisgarh-1)) has been recieved from the health authorities of the respective states and is reflected in the cumulative total
4. *Positive report includes samples taken on 19/02/2010 to 21/02/2010.
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Posted - 02/17/2010 : 18:28:14
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http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=57938
1.Till date, samples from 126936 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in Government Laboratories And a few private Laboratories across the country and 29409(23.16%) of them have been found positive.
2. All 31 cases reported during the day are indigenous cases.
3. Three deaths (Gujarat-2, Maharashtra-1) were reported during the day.
4. Reports of Three earlier deaths (Karnataka-2 and Gujarat-1) have been received from the health authorities of the respective state and reflected in the cumulative total.
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Posted - 01/30/2010 : 07:22:32
http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=57466
.Till date, samples from 122889 persons have been tested for Influenza A H1N1 in Government Laboratories
And a few private Laboratories across the country and 28775(23.41%) of them have been found positive.
2. All of the 13 cases reported during the day are indigenous cases.
3 No deaths were reported on the day.
4. Reports of seven earlier deaths (Maharashtra-2, Madhya Pradesh-1 and Gujarat-4)) have been recieved from the health authorities of the respective state and are reflected in the cumulative total.
5.* Major lab reports not recieved from the state.
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Posted - 01/16/2010 : 06:03:09
India's swine flu death jumps to 1,113
2010-01-15 22:00:00
http://sify.com/news/India-s-swine-flu-death-jumps-to-1-113-news-National-kbpwadihgef.html
Five swine flu deaths were recorded in India Friday, taking the toll so far to 1,113, health authorities said here.
Also 64 new cases were reported in the country, taking the number of people infected with the contagious virus to 28,111.
Three deaths were reported from Gujarat, where the casualties have now touched 173.
One death each was reported from the national capital and Maharashtra.
In the Indian capital, a 55-year-old woman died of swine flu Friday, taking the toll due to H1N1 virus to 89.
'A woman died at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital today. With this, the deaths from the swine flu infection in the city have reached 89,' Anjana Prakash, assistant nodal officer for swine flu in the capital, told IANS.
Prakash also said there were four new cases of swine flu but none of them were of children.
With the new infections, the total number of infections due to the pandemic has gone up to 9,584.
In Maharashtra - which reported the first death in the country Aug 3 - the toll has now gone up to 298 - the highest in the country. Also, 27 new cases were reported Friday in the state, taking the number of people infected with the virus to 4,848.
Also, new cases were reported from Karnataka (11), Gujarat (8), Rajasthan (2) and Goa (1).
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Posted - 01/05/2010 : 19:18:28
14 new swine flu cases; toll 73
http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/06/stories/2010010659150400.htm
NEW DELHI: The Capital reported 14 new cases of swine flu on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases reported so far in the city to 9,495.
A Health Department official said: “Fourteen new cases of swine flu were reported today of which six are children. No death due to swine flu was reported on Tuesday.”
A 21-year-old woman had died of swine flu on Monday, taking the death toll due to the H1N1 virus in the Capital to 73.
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Posted - 12/29/2009 : 09:04:03
One dies of swine flu, 62 fresh cases in Delhi
PTI 29 December 2009, 07:56pm IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/One-dies-of-swine-flu-62-fresh-cases-in-Delhi/articleshow/5392320.cms
NEW DELHI: One more person died due to swine flu and 62 patients, including 18 children, tested positive for the disease in the national capital today, taking the number of cases to 9,260.
"Of the total 62 positive cases, 18 were of children. With this, the total number of swine flu cases reported till date has reached 9,260," Delhi health minister Kiran Walia said.
She also said that a total of 5,248 children have been affected by the virus till now. The toll due to the pandemic virus in the city rose to 68 after one death was reported today, she said.
Walia, however, maintained that the situation is under control and the government is doing its best in providing treatment to H1N1 patients in government hospitals.
According to the WHO, India continues to report maximum number of cases of swine flu in the south-east Asian region. |
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Posted - 12/27/2009 : 18:46:47
Swine flu death could've been avoided
TNN 28 December 2009, 01:08am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Swine-flu-death-couldve-been-avoided/articleshow/5385972.cms
LUCKNOW: Here's a case that exposes the state of state government's preparedness to tackle swine flu. At a recent meeting to review arrangements to manage H1N1 flu infection, health minister Anant Kumar Mishra had given instructions to keep spare ventilators for emergency cases of the disease. Sadly, 35-year-old Alok Yadav, who died of swine flu in the state capital on December 25 could have been saved if this instruction was followed.
Yadav, a resident of Gosainganj, fell ill with flu-like symptoms about 10 days ago. Seeing little improvement in his condition, Yadav's family rushed him to a nearby hospital on December 18. Doctors at this hospital suspected Yadav to be suffering from swine flu after he didn't respond to primary treatment. "The doctors told us that he may be suffering with swine flu and would need expert handling, so they referred him to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital," said a family member.
He was shifted to Lohia Hospital on December 20, where doctors confirmed that Yadav was suffering from H1N1 infection and his condition was critical. "It was essential to put him on ventilator. As we didn't have any vacant ventilator, we told the attendants to take him either to Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences or Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University at the earliest," said a doctor at Lohia Hospital.
The attendants preferred SGPGIMS because it was closer to their residence. But luck wasn't perhaps by the side of Alok who didn't get admission at SGPGIMS because of the non-availability of ventilators. The institute had 27
27 ventilators but all of them were occupied. "After fire broke out at the institute early this month, all the critical patients from neuro and critical care unit have been shifted to ventilator unit," shared a senior officer in SGPGIMS administration.
The attendants then rushed Yadav to a private hospital in Indiranagar but here too they had to return empty handed. The next stoppage was Balrampur but the effort went in vain. At last they took him to CSMMU where Yadav was immediately put on a ventilator.
A few hours after being put on ventilator, Alok's condition started improving. Seeing the improvement, doctors took him off the ventilator and shifted him to the Gandhi Ward. But barely a few hours had passed when
the patient's condition started deteriorating. By Thursday night, his condition became extremely critical and the doctors felt the need of a ventilator again.
But, by now all the ventilators had been occupied. Alok remained without a ventilator till Friday morning, when he breathed his last. Enraged by Alok's death for lack of proper facilities, his family members want the state government to wake up. "My brother has gone. But the state government should take lesson from this incident to save others from the same suffering," said his brother Raju.
When asked to comment, chief medical officer, Lucknow, Dr AK Shukla said that a death audit of the case had been ordered and additional CMO Dr RB Singh was examining the matter. "Dr Singh met with doctors at CSMMU on Sunday to collect the case sheet of Yadav. He is likely to submit his report in a couple of days," said Dr Shukla. Health minister Anant Mishra, on the other hand, called a meeting of senior health officials at his residence on Sunday evening, to chalk out strategy for sprucing up the arrangements to tackle the flu.
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Posted - 12/27/2009 : 06:19:32
25th December 2009, 18766 passengers have been screened at 12 Airports with 41 counters manned by 101 doctors and 71 paramedics. Total passengers screened till date is 10072376. |
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Posted - 12/26/2009 : 02:36:00
Swine flu vaccine by March-April next year: Azad
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Gulam Nabi Azad during the inauguration of the modernised M. S. Ramaiah Medical Teaching Hospital in Bangalore on Friday. Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash
The Hindu Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Gulam Nabi Azad during the inauguration of the modernised M. S. Ramaiah Medical Teaching Hospital in Bangalore on Friday. Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article70474.ece
The swine flu vaccine will be brought out by March or April next year after completion of animal and human trials, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday.
“We have already completed the first phase of animal trials (on small animals) and begun the second phase on big animals. We will be completing both the animal and human trials by March and the vaccine will be launched by March end or April first week”, Mr. Azad told reporters after inaugurating the renovated M S Ramaiah Medical Teaching Hospital here.
Noting that swine flu was a global phenomenon not confined to India with the virus having spread to 210 countries, the Union Minister said, “In fact in India, the spread of the pandemic has been far less compared to some western countries.”
“Although we will be late in bringing out the vaccine, we will be launching it after fully testing its efficacy unlike some other countries which have been in a hurry to bring it (vaccine) out without fully testing its effectiveness”, he said.
He said 40 million capsules of Tamiflu had been purchased, out of which 20 million had already been distributed across the country. |
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Posted - 12/22/2009 : 18:40:21
6 more test positive for swine flu
swineflu, health Posted: Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 0426 hrs Chandigarh:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/6-more-test-positive-for-swine-flu/558130
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Six more persons, including four from Chandigarh, tested positive for swine flu in the city on Tuesday.
Four cases from Chandigarh included a PGI doctor. Two persons from Punjab—one from Nabha and another from Bathinda, also tested positive for H1N1. The positive cases count has crossed 290 now.
Meanwhile, the UT Health department received a fresh consignment of 12,000 tablets of Tamiflu and 500 bottles of syrup from the Union Health Ministry.
The department officials have also written to the Indian Medical Association, Chandigarh Chapter, for providing a list of private doctors who can prescribe Tamiflu based on the symptoms of the patients without testing their sample.
Last week, the UT health department had declared that the spread of swine flu in the city now falls in the category of “community spread” and more doctors, besides the government ones, were required to prescribe medicines to the increasing rush of patients.
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Posted - 12/18/2009 : 20:25:48
ndia's swine flu toll touches 769, over 23,000 affected
2009-12-18 21:40:00
http://sify.com/news/India-s-swine-flu-toll-touches-769-over-23-000-affected-news-National-jmsvEcfdigg.html
Ten swine flu deaths, including two in the national capital, were reported Friday, taking the total toll in India to 769, health authorities said here.
Also, a record 364 new cases were reported in the country, taking the total number of people affected with the virus to 23,182.
Four deaths were reported from Punjab, taking the total number of people who have died due to the contagious virus in the state to 18.
With the two deaths in the national capital, the deaths have climbed to 54, union health ministry officials said here.
Two deaths were also reported from Haryana, taking the toll to 26. One death each was reported from Maharashtra, which records the highest number of fatalities in the country, and Rajasthan.
In Maharashtra, 248 people have died due to the flu, while the figure has touched 105 in Rajasthan.
'Three deaths, including two in Delhi, have been reported during the day,' said a statement issued here.
Delhi reported 214 new cases of infection Friday, taking the cumulative infection figure to 8,156 so far.
'The capital reported 214 fresh swine flu cases. Of the 214 new cases, 107 were children,' Anjana Prakash, additional nodal officer handling swine flu cases in Delhi, told IANS.
Of the total 8,156 swine flu cases, 4,777 are children, she said.
'Till date, samples from 101,858 persons have been tested for Influenza A (H1N1) in government laboratories and a few private Laboratories across the country and 23182 of them have been found positive,' the statement said here.
New cases were also reported from Rajasthan (43), Uttar Pradesh (30), Chandigarh (27), Haryana (10) and Karnataka (2).
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Posted - 12/16/2009 : 02:21:30
http://beta.thehindu.com/health/medicine-and-research/article65812.ece?homepage=true
An international study has found a molecule in H1N1, or swine flu, patients whose levels determine the severity of the illness or even death.
Canadian and Spanish scientists have found this molecule called Interleukin 17 (IL-17) to be the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the H1N1 virus. The study was carried in 10 Spanish hospitals during the first pandemic wave in July and August this year.
Researchers from the Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid in Spain, Toronto’s University Health Network and the University of Toronto analysed different levels of regulating molecules (IL-17) for 20 hospitalized patients, 15 outpatients and 15 others.
They found high levels of IL-17 molecule in the blood of severe H1N1 patients and low levels in patients with the mild form of the disease.
According to a statement by the University of Toronto, IL-17 is produced by the body and is important in the normal regulation of white blood cells which fight infection and disease.
But in certain circumstances, the molecule becomes out of control, leading to inflammation and autoimmune diseases like H1N1.
The research paper titled ‘Th1 and Th17 hypercytokinemia as early host response signature in severe pandemic influenza,’ has been published in the December issue of the Journal of Critical Care.
“In rare cases, the virus (molecule) causes lung infections requiring patients to be treated in hospital. By targeting or blocking Th17 in the future, we could potentially reduce the amount of inflammation in the lungs and speed up recovery,” Canadian professor David Kelvin, who was part of the research team, said.
Mr. Kelvin said the clinical applications of their study will take some time. But a test to determine who has high levels of this molecule is possible in the near future, he said.
“A diagnostic test could let us know early as to who is at risk for the severe form of this illness quickly,” the Canadian said.
The high levels of the molecule would indicate a failure of the immune system to eliminate the virus, similar to what happened during the 1918 Spanish flu when a deadly influenza A virus strain of the sub-type H1N1 ravaged populations, he added.
The statement also quoted Dr Jesus Bermejo-Martin of the Spanish team as saying that identifying drugs that regulate the activity of IL-17 may provide alternative treatments for patients with severe H1N1.
Keywords: H1N1, swine flu, 1918 Spanish flu, Dr Jesus Bermejo-Martin, Interleukin 17 (IL-17), University of Toronto, Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Journal of Critical Care |
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Posted - 12/09/2009 : 08:34:16
ne more H1N1 death
TNN 9 December 2009, 03:55am IST
|http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/One-more-H1N1-death/articleshow/5316618.cms
PUNE: A 25-year-old woman who died on Sunday was declared positive for the H1N1 influenza on Tuesday. With this, the city's death toll has
According to Pradip Awate, medical officer of state health services, Chaitali Santosh Chaudhari (25), a resident of Padegaon village, Phaltan taluka, died at Sassoon hospital at 11.45 pm on Sunday. "Her throat swab report confirmed the presence of the H1N1 virus on Tuesday," said Awate.
Before being admitted to Sassoon hospital on December 6, Chaitali was treated at other local hospitals. "She had developed bilateral pneumonia and was critical at the time of admission. She was put on a ventilator. Her condition deteriorated further, following which she succumbed to the contagion," said Awate. |
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