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 Posted - 06/15/2009 : 09:39:19
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A(H1N1) flu: Azad says situation under control
New Delhi/Hyderabad (IANS): Three more people were confirmed to have been infected with influenza A(H1N1) on Monday, taking the total number of A(H1N1) flu cases in the country to 23. However, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the situation was under control as 11 people had recovered.
"Medicine is available in plenty and the most important thing is that this disease is 100 per cent curable. Out of total 23 cases, 11 have already been treated and discharged. So you are only left with 12 cases," Mr. Azad told reporters in New Delhi.
He said that keeping in mind the size and population of the country, 11-12 cases was nothing as compared to the huge numbers most developed countries have reported.
In Hyderabad, two sisters aged eight and four, and a 45-year-old woman were on Sunday confirmed to be infected, taking the total number of cases in Andhra Pradesh to 12, the highest in India. The confirmed cases include five children.
The two children and their mother arrived in Hyderabad from New York on June 10 by Indian Airlines Flight IA-140. Their mother is among five air passengers kept under observation for suspected symptoms of A(H1N1) flu.
Doctors at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital said the samples of the suspected cases, including two children had been sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in New Delhi.
Health officials said they would also screen passengers of IA-140 who sat three rows in front and three rows behind the two girls and their mother.
The 45-year-old woman, who also tested positive on Sunday, is staying in the hospital along with her 20-month-old grandson who was confirmed to be infected on Friday.
Authorities have also sent the samples of the grandfather of a six-year-old girl who tested positive last week. He has been staying with the girl in the hospital.
Four air passengers who were admitted to the Chest Hospital Sunday with suspected symptoms of A(H1N1) flu include a nine-year-old boy who arrived from New Jersey and a 43-year-old woman who came from Kuwait. A six-year-old girl who arrived from Minneapolis June 12 and a 27-year-old man who came from New York are also under observation.
With the three new cases, the number of patients undergoing treatment at the hospital rose to six. Six other patients were treated and discharged from the hospital.
Health officials said all the infected persons came from abroad, majority of them from the U.S. However, a local youth contracted the flu from his brother, a techie who arrived from Philadelphia on May 31. Three of his co-passengers were also found infected.
Meanwhile, the State authorities are set to launch an exclusive interactive voice response (IVRS) facility on Influenza A(H1N1). The IVRS facility, to be inaugurated later Monday, will provide information and clarify doubts among the general public with regards to the flu.
The IVRS has been developed by the CEO of Voicegate Technologies Syed Mohammad, whose son Syed Rehan recently recovered from A(H1N1) flu.
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 01:56:21
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Nine students quarantined with symptoms of Influenza A(H1N1)
Jalandhar (PTI): A day after a boy who had returned from the US tested positive for swine flu, nine other students who accompanied him to the trip were quarantined at a hospital here today after they showed symptoms of the disease.
"We have admitted as many as nine students, who have just returned from America, in the isolation ward of civil hospital after they complained of fever and sore throat. Their blood samples have been sent to Delhi for tests," Dr S S Walia, Civil Surgeon of Civil Hospital told PTI.
The nine were part of a group of 30 students and three teachers who had gone to an education trip to NASA in the USA.
One of the students in the group yesterday tested positive for the virus and has been hospitalised in Delhi.
The blood samples of these nine students have been sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi last night and the report is expected to reach tonight, added Dr Walia.
Four of the students have been sent home after medical check up, Nodal Officer on A(H1N1) Flu and Project Director of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), Deepak Bhatia said, adding they have been given medicines and told not to venture out.
Others who complained about fever include two from Kapurthala and one each from Bhatinda, Hoshiarpur and Ropar and one from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, Mr. Bhatia said.
A R Talwar, Principal Secretary (Health), Punjab said there were six other persons from Punjab who came in contact with the Jalandhar students. The six belonged to the districts of Bathinda, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala and accordingly medical experts of these districts have been informed to conduct medical tests on them.
He said a team of four doctors from NICD will arrive here soon to analyse the situation and if needed, give special training to the local doctors to tackle the virus.
In order to conduct an extensive survey of those who came in contact with the suspected swine flue affected students, seven teams of doctors have been formed, who would conduct a thorough survey and make a case history of such persons.
As many as 150 special testing tubes have also been provided to the Jalandhar civil hospital to deal with the situation.
Special counters have been set up at the international borders of Wagah and Hussainiwala to check suspected cases of the disease.
A special helpline with toll free number (1075) has also been set up in Jalandhar, where any private doctor or any person can report any suspected case of swine flue, he added.
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 12:09:35
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A New Zealander has given a small Gulf Arab country one of its first cases of swine flu, as Samoa tonight also confirmed its first case.
Qatar announced on Tuesday two cases of the H1N1 flu virus in two foreign children, including one from New Zealand.
It comes as the Health Ministry tonight revised the number of confirmed swine flu cases to 117.
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 20:07:34
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Indigenous vaccine soon for A(H1N1): ICMR chief
MADURAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has initiated steps to produce an indigenous vaccine for the A(H1N1) influenza and it expects the vaccine to be available in four to six months at affordable rates.
“We have sent proposals to the Union government to start developing the indigenous vaccine. We are trying to get about three companies to start production after getting the Centre’s clearance,” V. M. Katoch, Director-General of ICMR, told The Hindu here on Tuesday.
Whether all three companies would produce the vaccine depended on obtaining clearance, he said. “After the swine flu cases began to be reported in India, the ICMR began the process of inviting companies to send proposals from which some were short-listed. One of the short-listed companies already has World Health Organisation (WHO) approval.”
Dr. Katoch said the objective was to make India self-reliant in tackling A(HINI) flu, which was declared a global pandemic by the WHO.
Cost factor
Dr. Katoch, also the Secretary of Department of Health Research, Government of India, said the cost factor would be kept in mind while producing the vaccine.
“The production of vaccine will take place in different regions of the country so that it will be available wherever required.”
According to him, a particular time frame would be given to companies, which get the permission, to start vaccine production. “The ICMR wants the vaccine to be produced as soon as possible.”
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Posted - 06/16/2009 : 20:11:08
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Swine flu scare grips city
23 turn up for screening, 15 samples sent for tests
Eight U.S. nationals and one Swedish woman report for screening at RGICD
Five of six samples sent for test on Monday negative
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Bangalore: Even as swine flu scare is gripping Bangalore, the State health authorities are demanding an exit check up in countries from where persons board a flight to India. This is because eight U.S. nationals and one Swedish woman have reported for screening at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) on Tuesday. Their samples have been sent for tests to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune.
The eight U.S. citizens include four co-passengers of the 29-year-old woman who had tested positive for the flu on Saturday. As many as 23 voluntarily reported for screening at the institute and 15 samples have been sent for tests. While two have been quarantined in the hospital, 13 have been home quarantined, RGICD Director Shashidhar Buggi said. Demanding that the airport authorities in the affected countries compulsorily do an exit screening before the passengers boarded a flight to India, Dr. Buggi said this was important to ensure that the flu did not spread.
Of the six samples that were sent on Monday for tests, five, including that of the ground staff member of Air France, have tested negative. The reports of the other person, a 30-year-old woman who arrived from the US on June 10, is awaited, he said.
A top official from the State Health Directorate said 17 passengers who were seated in three rows in front of Ms. Sultana’s seat in the Air France flight that came from New Jersey on Friday, have been screened. “Though they have not shown any symptoms, we have asked them to be under self-isolation and our health officials are ensuring that their movements are restricted,” the official said.
Dr. Buggi said Ms. Sultana’s health was improving. “She is responding well to the treatment. We have been sending her samples regularly for tests and last night’s sample tested negative for the H1N1 virus. Though her daughter Rida is stable, the viral load is yet to subside in her,” he said.
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 18:37:21
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Swine flu cases climb to 44
NEW DELHI: Fresh cases of swine flu have been reported from Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, taking the total number of positive cases across the country to 44 on Thursday.
Five cases have been reported from Delhi, three from Bangalore and one case tested positive in Hyderabad on Thursday, a Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry official said.
All the patients are undergoing treatment in isolation facilities. Three of the isolated patients in Delhi had arrived from the United States, Japan and Australia.
The other two cases in Delhi have not travelled abroad and are family contacts of the two positive cases reported on Wednesday.
The cases in Bangalore have travelled from the U.S. and Thailand. The case in Hyderabad has travelled from the United States.
So far samples of 370 people have been tested, of which 44 have tested positive for swine flu.
Of these, only four are indigenous cases who got the infection from the positive cases that have come to India from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the virus.
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 18:39:34
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Swine flu under control, says Azad
BHUBANESWAR: The A (H1N1) flu was totally under control in the country, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Thursday.
“The detection of 35 cases was negligible in a country like ours,” Mr. Azad said at a press conference here.
Mr. Azad said that out of the 35 persons detected , 12 had already been released and the remaining patients were undergoing treatment at different places.
Many of those undergoing treatment would be released soon, he added.
The Minister claimed that screening of the persons arriving at various international airports, seaports and other entry points had helped in checking the spread of the virus.
He reiterated his appeal to the people to avoid unnecessary visits to countries such as the U.S. till the flu was brought under control.
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 20:39:59
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Report by Orissadiary correspondent; Puri: Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik today created awareness about swine flu through his sandy medium. He created a 15 ft long pig sitting on the Golden beach wearing a mask with message Beware of Swine flu. I want to spread the awareness among the tourists and people about swine flu those who are coming to visit Puri. I used 5 tones of sand to create this sculpture. Students of my golden sand art institute joins hand with me in this work said sudarsan.
Recently pattnaik got award at South Korea and Moscow while participating in sand sculpture competitions. This year he got people of the year award from Limca book of records.
Former world champion Sudarsan has so far participated in more than 39 international sand sculpture championships across the world and won many awards for the country. Through his art he helped the tsunami victims in India, save the endangered Olive Ridley Turtles, Bird flu and spread awareness of the dangers of HIV-AIDS and polio. Pattnaik also running a sand art school at Puri Beach in Orissa.
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 02:31:34
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Swine flu cases on rise as nations brace for winter
By Salman Ansari javid
As we brace ourselves for the beginning of summer next week in Tehran the southern hemisphere of the world is getting ready for winter or the flu season. A three-month-old baby became the first victim of swine flu in Argentina as the number of cases of H1N1-A virus has been climbing in Argentina and neighboring Chile.
The rising number of countries declaring their first case of the swine flu prompted the World Health Organization to declare the first pandemic of the 21st century last week. In a statement on Monday WHO said that 76 countries had reported a total of 35,928 cases of virus, with 163 deaths.
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The WHO definition of “influenza pandemic” ignores the number of cases and deaths. Nowadays it requires “sustained chains of human-to-human transmission leading to communitywide outbreaks” in two parts of the world. For example, outbreaks of swine flu in two South American countries and somewhere in China could qualify as a pandemic. No deaths required.
As for the definition of the disease: “Swine flu is a systemic viral disease that has emerged with a new strain of influence A virus (H1N1) and can spread among humans”, said Dr. Mehrdad Hasibi, of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Part swine, part human, part avian this strain of influenza has travelled across borders. Pigs are susceptible to bird flu and in some rare cases a hog can be infected with more than one virus at a time. When that happens the genes have a chance to mix together in innumerable ways and in this case to concoct an entirely new strain that has the power to spread from pig to human to human.
Dr. Allison McGeer is the director of infectious disease control at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. During the early stages of the outbreak last March, she forecasted a global pandemic: “We know that influenza viruses don’t need aircraft. They may find aircraft convenient, like people do. But they don’t need them and there have been a whole series of studies showing that closing borders, travel restrictions and screening at the borders don’t work.”
The old fashioned seasonal flue strikes every nation yearly and kills an estimated 250,000 to 500,000. According to WHO the mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million people worldwide. The worst influenza pandemic in history, the Spanish flu of 1918-19, killed about 50 million people.
Despite of its name the flu probably originated in the U.S., but it was called Spanish flu because at the time, newspapers were censored in the countries that were at war. So in the U.S., England, France and Germany, though people were sick and dying, there was literally no mention of the flue. Spain, however, was neutral in WWI, so newspapers there carried out reports of the epidemic.
Counter measures
The declaration of pandemic has prompted governments everywhere to take expensive measures of precaution. Iran set up its first Swine Flu Committee in the first week of May. Deputy Health Minister Hamid Reza Rakesh announced that Iranian drug companies are currently producing anti-viral drug for the treatment of bird flu which can also be used for the treatment of swine flu.
All international airports in the country have put into effect quarantine plan in order to control the spread of swine flu. According to a report by PressTV the Iranian airport authorities had implemented a quarantine plan for about 60 foreign passengers after observing swine-flu-like symptoms.
Head of the Disease Control at Iran’s Health Ministry Mohammad Mehdi Gouya said all the 60 passengers were cleared after “medical analysis and checkups showed the symptoms are only like swine-flu symptoms.”
“We have not restricted flights into Iran because the country does not run any direct flights to Mexico or the U.S.,” Mr. Gouya added.
Hong Kong will reach peak flu season in two to four weeks time. Countries located in the south of the equator are also entering the winter months and the traditional flu season. Chile and Argentina are examples.
So far there have been no known cases of confirmed swine flu infections in Iran. However, this does not mean officials should let their guard down. The number of swine flu cases is expected to increase as the flu season approaches
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 23:06:46
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The most important question not raised during the swine-flu panic could have been asked by a 6-year-old: where do viruses come from? The answer, it turns out, is simple, and scary: viruses come from a giant wellspring of diseases—also known as the environment—that grown-ups should be very careful not to disturb. Pathogens—viruses, bacteria and a wide variety of other parasites—appear in nature as unpredictable, minimalist terrors equipped with little genetic material of their own but the ability to make things up as they go. A bird-flu virus can rest coolly in pigs, then flare up in humans, scrambling genes from all three species in ways impossible to fully anticipate with vaccines. The SARS virus bided its time among palm civets (a kind of mongoose) and horseshoe bats before killing humans in 2002. And possibly the most diminutive of all, the retrovirus HIV emerged from the blood of wild monkeys to become the most efficient destroyer of the human immune system. With strong enough poison and infinitely transmutable genes, a single pathogen could lay deadly siege to the rest of the living world.
The reason this has yet to happen in our lifetimes is that, brilliant as nature is at devising ways to kill, it has also come up with countless ways to cope and survive. Put all the living species together and you have an impressive array of mechanisms to fend off pathogens or contain them in particular ecosystems that have defenses built in. This arrangement, however, is now under serious threat: humans, moving ever deeper into the wild to level forests, extract minerals and plant crops, are changing the balance of ecosystems the world over and taking these defenses apart. These warped ecologies become ground zero for new and deadly infectious diseases, which emerge and spread at an ever-greater rate. This amounts to "Armageddon in slow motion," says Eric Chivian, head of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Chivian, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for alerting the public to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, now says the danger to human health posed by a degraded planet is "no less devastating than a nuclear war … the ultimate impact might be just as catastrophic."
The evidence is already in. Malaria, currently the most prevalent cause of death in the world, can be ascribed almost entirely to human acts of deforestation, which produces stagnant pools of water and allows more sunlight to reach water surfaces. This intensifies the growth of algae and forms the perfect nursery for Anopheles mosquitoes, potent vectors for the malaria parasite. Anopheles barely had a foothold in the ecosystem in its former state, but when conditions changed—as in the Amazon, East Africa and Southeast Asia—vector mosquitoes quickly displaced other benign species. The spread of other diseases has followed a similar trajectory.
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 05:06:23
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50 cases of swine flu in India, 16 discharged
2009-06-20 01:00:00
Six people including two children tested positive for the influenza A(H1N1) virus Friday, taking the total number of people affected with swine flu in India to 50. At least 16 of them have been discharged from the hospitals on complete recovery.
'Six new cases of swine flu have been reported - three from Delhi, two from Bangalore and one from Mumbai. All of them have been quarantined at identified health facilities and their contacts are being traced,' a health ministry statement said.
'Of the 50 cases, 16 have been discharged. Rest of the patients are all stable and remain admitted to the identified health facilities,' it added.
In Delhi, a nine-year-old boy who returned from the US June 11 tested positive. He reported himself to the hospital after he developed swine flu-like symptoms June 17. A 28-year-old man who travelled from Egypt June 13 also tested positive for swine flu.
In the third case, a 66-year-old mother contracted swine flu from her son, who had tested positive June 17.
'Delhi has reported three new swine flu cases, including one of human-to-human transfer. We now have 12 swine flu cases in various hospitals in the capital. We are now focusing on containing the secondary infection spreading in the capital,' Delhi Health Secretary J.P. Singh told IANS.
The capital accounts for four of the five human-to-human transfer cases in the country.
A two-year-old boy who travelled from the US and reached Bangalore June 14 has tested positive for swine flu. The second case in that city was of a 36-year-old man who travelled from Germany and reached Bangalore June 14. He reported to an identified health facility June 17 and has tested positive.
A 36-year-old male who travelled from New Jersey, US, and reached Mumbai June 15 has also tested positive with swine flu.
So far samples of 407 people have been tested, of which 50 have been tested positive. Among these people, 128 were identified through health screening at international airports, 15 through contact tracing and the rest were samples from people who self-reported.
Ministry officials said that among the 31 school children in Jalandhar who returned from the US, 14 children continues to be under medication. Eight of them so far tested positive. They have responded to treatment.
'The remaining children and at least 296 contacts are under chemoprophylaxis. Surveillance in the community for fever cases is on. As of now, no case has been reported among the contacts,' a health ministry official said.
Meanwhile, health authorities are likely to quarantine a family in Chandigarh as one of its members, who recently returned from the US, was suspected to have swine flu.
According to health officials, a 70-year-old woman, who returned from the US June 14 with her two grandchildren, approached the doctors with complaints of sneezing and a sore throat Thursday. Considering her travel history, she was admitted to the government hospital in Sector 32.
The World Health Organisation has reported 44,287 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection from 89 countries as |
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 12:16:48
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Update on Influenza a (H1N1) as on 21st June 2009
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World Health Organization has reported 44287 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 infection from 94 countries as on 19th June 2009. There have been 180 deaths. (No further update is available)
Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 21 International airports. 46661 passengers have been screened on 20.6.2009. 28584 passengers were from affected countries. 222 doctors and 111 paramedics have been deployed to man 77 counters at the above airports. A cumulative total of 2192493 passengers have been screened.
Three new cases have been reported: Two from Chennai and one from Delhi. Of the two cases in Chennai: (i) one is 29 years old male passenger who had travelled from North Carolina to New Delhi transiting New Jersey and Mumbai reaching Chennai by AI flight AI 144 on 13th June and self reported at the identified health facility on 18th with complaints of fever, running nose and sore throat. (ii) the second case is his wife, 25 years who travelled with him. She also developed symptoms of fever, sore throat and reported to the identified health facility. The single patient in Delhi is a 15 year old male passenger who had travelled from New York to Delhi on 17th June 2009. He self reported at the identified health facility with symptoms of sore throat, cough, body-ache and fever on 19th June 2009. All their contacts are being traced and given chemoprophylaxis.
So far samples of 421 persons have been tested of which fifty `nine have been tested positive for novel Influenza A [H1N1]. Of these, six cases are indigenous cases who got the infection from the positive cases traveled from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the novel virus. Among the 421 persons tested, 138 were identified through health screening at International Airports, 20 identified through contact tracing and the rest were samples from persons who have self reported.
Of the 59 cases, thirty two have been discharged. Rest of the patients are all stable and remain admitted to the identified health facility.
The situation is being monitored.
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 12:31:15
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Swine flu may become resistant to Tamiflu if it mingles with one of this season's influenza strains, experts warn.
World-renowned Canterbury virologist Dr Lance Jennings said one of the two strains of seasonal influenza circulating this year was resistant to Tamiflu.
It was possible this resistant strain would mutate with the influenza A (H1N1) virus and affect Tamiflu's ability to medicate swine flu, Jennings said.
"Viruses do mutate ... The only thing we can do is be prepared."
If swine flu became resistant to Tamiflu, New Zealand had stocks of another drug, Relenza, that could combat influenza, he said. Relenza was developed before Tamiflu and its chemical makeup made it tougher for viruses to develop resistance.
"If A (H1N1) became resistant to Tamiflu, that would be bad. But the worst-case scenarios are Avian flu mutating, so it can spread between humans, or the swine flu developing into a more deadly form," Jennings said.
Environmental Science and Research virologist Sue Huang, head of the World Health Organisation national influenza centre in Upper Hutt, also voiced concerns.
"Viruses are notoriously unpredictable and strains change constantly ... if there was mixing of the novel virus with other A/H1N1 strains circulating, such as in a person infected with both strains, the novel virus could take on resistant characteristics," she said.
Seriously ill swine flu patients flocked to Canterbury's new influenza centre over the weekend. More than 142 people had visited the Christchurch assessment centre since it opened on Friday. All were "reasonably or seriously" unwell, with symptoms such as high fever, rasping coughs and breathing problems, centre managers said.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Health said a rise in cases of serious illness was inevitable. The number of confirmed cases nationwide is 258 an increase of 42 since Friday. More than 200 of those cases had been reported in the past week, mainly in the three major cities.
Last night Canterbury had 67 confirmed cases. However, there was only one other case in the Nelson-Marlborough region in the South Island.
Canterbury Primary Pandemic Group co-ordinator Phil Schroeder said the screening centre was seeing only those with more serious flu symptoms.
Concerned Cantabrians had been calling the free information and triage line, meaning only those who needed to see a doctor came to the centre, he said.
A 30-year-old woman remained in a critical condition in Wellington Hospital last night with swine flu, and underlying medical problems.
Ministry of Health director of public health Dr Mark Jacobs said while most cases had been mild to moderate, over the coming weeks and months there would be a big increase in the number and severity of cases.
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 12:33:01
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infect up to half the population'
Health authorities told to set up testing and drug distribution centres in case of autumn outbreak
By Jonathan Owen
Sunday, 21 June 2009
A medical researcher working to produce a DNA test for swine flu, which is spreading more quickly in the UK
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Primary care trusts are to set up anti-viral drug distribution centres and swine flu testing clinics amid fears that the infection could spread out of control.
The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, wrote to health authorities last week urging hospitals to test all patients who show signs of flu-like symptoms. He wrote: "Transmission from person to person in this country is increasingly common. There is evidence that sporadic cases are arising with no apparent link either to cases elsewhere in the UK or to travel abroad."
The letter followed an earlier warning from Sir Liam that millions of Britons could fall victim to swine flu in the coming months. Government officials admitted last night that illness rates from the virus could reach 50 per cent.
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 12:39:44
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5 H1N1 patients discharged after treatment
Jalandhar (PTI): Five of the seven students, who tested positive for A H1N1 after returning from a visit to NASA in the US, have been discharged from hospital after treatment.
A total of 14 students had been admitted in the civil hospital for A H1N1 treatment.
S S Wali, Civil Surgeon, said that five students who had been infected and seven others who tested negative have been discharged.
"The remaining two students who were found positive for A H1N1 are recovering fast and they would also be discharged within few days," he said.
He said that the students, who were found positive, were told to remain at home for another week and while others were advised to follow precautions for the next few days.
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'Swine flu more dangerous than bird flu'
