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S.ravi
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 Posted - 06/21/2009 : 20:18:08
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Health funds replace hospitals in treating swine flu
From now on and until further notice, adults and children who have the symptoms of H1N1 (swine) flu should go to their health fund community clinic instead of to a hospital emergency room, senior Health Ministry officials said on Sunday.
Only those people at high risk for it or who develop complications will now be hospitalized, rather than all those found positive for the viral strain.
At last count, 271 Israelis have been infected with swine flu in the last two months, the vast majority between the ages of 10 and 50. Older people apparently have natural immunity to the virus, and only younger people who were not exposed to a similar strain before have taken ill.
Fortunately, all the cases here so far have been mild. More than 38,000 cases have been reported around the world, and 109 sufferers have died, mostly in countries with poor public health systems.
In a briefing for health reporters at the ministry, Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman said that he wants the thousands of young people who will soon arrive to participate in the Maccabiah Games to be screened for the flu virus, as numerous young Jews who came from the US for birthright (Taglit) tours have been exposed.
All arrivals at the air and sea ports will receive a booklet on H1N1 flu during the coming months.
Public health services chief Dr. Itamar Grotto said that the US, not Mexico, is now the site of the most cases.
"There have been thousands of reported cases there, but I think it is really tens of thousands," he said. "The authorities there don't have to examine and isolate all of them. They treat only those at risk.
"Israeli authorities continue to want to examine those suspected of having swine flu, but if found to be positive, they will be asked to get treatment from their health fund in the community and to isolate themselves at home until they recover," Grotto said.
"Every relevant doctor has been told what to do, but the ministry's lab continues to take samples and confirm cases," he added.
Litzman joked that as a result of the flu, "we will close all schools on June 30," which is the official end of the state school year anyway. Yet summer camps will soon begin, haredi boys continue studying until Tisha Be'av (July 30), and most day care centers remain open until mid- to late August.
Grotto said the ministry is "preparing guidelines" for these institutions.
"If a child is sick, we recommend that they not be taken to class," he said.
Maccabi Health Services became the first health fund to announce that it had set up a phone line (1-700-70-90-19) manned by nurses to screen callers who suspected they or their relatives had H1N1 flu symptoms. Fifty-six Maccabi flu clinics will be open to handle cases.
It is not clear whether H1N1 will die out by itself this summer (because the virus has difficulty surviving heat and people spend more time outdoors and with windows open) or whether it will reappear in the fall or winter, alone or mixed with ordinary flu viruses.
But the ministry is remaining alert, keeping a particular eye on Australia, where it is now winter, the officials said.
The World Health Organization, which on June 11 declared swine flu a phase 6 emergency - meaning a worldwide pandemic is under way - has asked the five pharmaceutical companies that make flu vaccine not to begin manufacturing H1N1 shots for a few weeks so there will be enough time to produce regular flu strain vaccines.
In any case, the companies are only in the development stages for a swine flu vaccine, and it is not clear whether it will be safe, effective or ready in time - or whether there will be a need for it by the time it's ready, Grotto asserted.
Litzman said he will not allow the costs of dealing with H1N1 flu to come at the expense of the annual basket of medications allocated by the Finance Ministry - despite hints from the Treasury that it would affect from the basket's funds.
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Posted - 06/22/2009 : 10:44:03
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Update on influenza a (H1N1) as on 22nd 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 22 International airports. 44691 passengers have been screened on 21.6.2009. 27345 passengers were from affected countries. 224 doctors and 112 paramedics have been deployed to man 77 counters at the above airports. A cumulative total of 2237184 passengers have been screened.
Four new cases have been reported today, where two from Delhi and one each is from Mumbai and Pune. Of the two cases in Delhi, one is 25 years old male passenger who had travelled from USA to New Delhi on 17 June, 2009 and self reported to identified health facility on 20th June with complaints of sore throat. The second case is a 29 year old female, who travelled from Canada to Delhi transiting Belgium, reached Delhi on 18 June, 2009 and reported to health facility with symptoms of body ache, cough, fever on 20 June, 2009. The Pune case is a 24 year old male passenger who had travelled from USA to Pune transiting London, Mumbai and reached Pune on 15 June 2009. He travelled to Lucknow via Delhi and back to Pune on 20.06.09 and reported to identified health facility with symptoms of sore throat, cough, body-ache and fever. The second case is that of a 23 year old female who travelled from Melbourne transiting Sydney reaching Mumbai on 19.06.09. She self reported to identified health facility on 20.06.09 with symptoms of cough and fever.
An indigenous case, 66 year old, and mother of a positive case (reported positive on 17.06.09) was admitted to identified health facility in Delhi. She was tested positive and her treatment was started immediately. She is also a known case of chronic respiratory illness which deteriorated yesterday and she was put on ventilator. She continues to be on ventilator. A group of experts are attending to her.
460 persons have been tested so far of which 63 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine flu]. Of these, six cases are indigenous cases who got the infection from the positive cases travelled from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the novel virus. 144 out of the 460 persons have been identified through entry screening, twenty through contact tracing and the rest were self reported.
Of the 63 cases, thirty seven have been discharged. Rest of the patients remain admitted to the identified health facility.
The situation is being monitored.
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Posted - 06/22/2009 : 20:17:24
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Swine flu: Lack of preparedness cause concern
22 Jun 2009, 2113 hrs IST, TNN
VARANASI: How prepared is the district health administration in tackling swine flu in the region was exposed when the city witnessed its first suspected case in Uruguay national at Babatpur airport on Sunday.
Though, the report of suspected case at the airport brought the entire airport staff and government machinery on their toes, lack of co-ordination between different agencies was also exposed on the occasion.
Not only was the isolation ward at SPG hospital in the city evacuated in a hurry to admit the patient, the ambulance service offered to the suspected patient also raised eyebrows.
According to Dr AK Gupta, chief medical superintendent, SPG hospital, the isolation ward was actually a separate ward under emergency services and other patients with serious diseases were admitted to it as it was lying vacant for a long time. However, the ward was immediately evacuated and patients shifted to other wards once the suspected swine flu patient reached the hospital, he claimed.
Even the leader of the 97-member Uruguay team, Paula, who was also accompanying the patient to the hospital, seemed to be dissatisfied with the arrangements. The ambulance in which the suspected patient was carried was not in a good condition and arrangements at the hospital were also raising concern, she said.
It may be mentioned here that the district health administration has prepared two isolation wards, each comprising 10 beds, at SPG and DDU hospitals. Besides, a temporary isolation ward has also been created at Babatpur airport for providing emergency symptomatic treatment. In addition, the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) administration has also made a separate swine flu ward, comprising five beds, to meet any emergency at Sir Sunder Lal (SSL) hospital.
Hotels, lodges adding to confusion?
Is Varanasi under the threat of swine flu? If ground realities are any indication, the city has a long ground to cover before it can be claimed ready to fight the virus.
While the district veterinary office is yet to come out with its annual animal census report, which has been hanging in balance for almost a year now, a lack of interest shown by hotels and lodges in keeping a close vigil on the health conditions of foreign visitors staying in the city is also quite problematic.
It may be mentioned here that the CMO office and the district administration organised a meeting with local hotels and lodges in May to make them aware of the dangers of the swine flu and its symptoms.
However, as per the reports of the CMO office, barring prominent hotels, especially the 5-star hotels, other hotels and lodges have not shown interest in the appeal.
As per reports of the tourism department, a number of foreign visitors like to stay near the ghats in the lesser known hotels and lodges to get a glimpse of the Ganga. As per report, bed availability of non-star hotels, dharamshalas and unregister hotels is close to 10,000, out of the total bed availability of over 12,000 in the city.
Similarly, though initial reports of the district veterinary office suggest that there are over 25,000 pigs in the city, according to DVO BB Singh, the number could increase once the animal census report comes out. "The report is in final stage and will come out soon," he added.
Nasal, throat swab of suspected patient sent for tests
The samples of nasal and throat swab of Miguel Angel Peran, Uruguay national and suspected patient suffering from swine flu was sent to the national capital on Monday.
According to Dr Saukat Kamal, assistant director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Varanasi, samples were sent in the afternoon and the reports are likely to come by Tuesday. "Even after the confirmation of swine flu in the first test, another test- real time polymerise chain reaction (PCR) test- would be conducted and it may take another one to two days to confirm swine flu in the patient," he informed.
He also said the patient was kept under strict supervision and a two-member team of doctors was deployed at SPG hospital to monitor the situation. "The patient is so far witnessing symptomatic treatment and the actual treatment will only start after confirmation of swine flu," he claimed.
Meanwhile, the district health administration has instructed the 97-member Uruguay team to stay in the city and are being monitored.
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Posted - 06/23/2009 : 20:50:32
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BANGALORE: With seven swine flu cases reported in Bangalore, the Karnataka government on Saturday announced the setting up of a second isolation ward to treat patients with HIN1 flu symptoms.
The second ward at the state-run Victoria Hospital in the city centre will have eight beds.
"Out of the seven confirmed swine flu cases in Bangalore, six patients are undergoing treatment at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD), and one in Lakeside Hospital," said RGICD director Shashidhar Buggi.
Lakeside Medical Centre and Hospital, a private facility in the city, has also started treating patients with swine flu symptoms.
"We don't want to take any chances and are making sure that adequate arrangements are in place to treat patients affected by swine flu," health commissioner Shrinivasachari said.
The latest swine flu case in Bangalore is of a 36-year-old engineer, who arrived in the city from Germany June 14. He tested positive for H1N1 virus on Friday.
A two-year-old who came from the US on Tuesday too tested positive.
The boy was undergoing treatment at the Lakeside Hospital, while the engineer is under observation at RGICD.
According to media reports, five farmers from Karnataka who have gone to China on a study tour have contracted the H1N1 flu virus. However, there is no official confirmation of the report.
The farmers are part of a 105-member team that left for China from Bangalore on June 17 on a two-week tour.
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Posted - 06/24/2009 : 18:41:04
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Swine flu scare didn't deter students
24 Jun 2009, 0431 hrs IST, TNN
Ahmedabad : When Zil Shah and his friends received the invitation for a six-day programme at NASA, the swine flu outbreak in US didn’t deter them. But, the 15 kids made sure they took necessary precautions. Says Deepak Shah, Zil’s father who accompanied the students, “All of us were made to wear safety masks as soon as we landed at New York airport and we underwent a medical test there.”
NASA too took precautions and maintained a hygienic ambience on its premises. “NASA has air-purifiers installed at their station. Besides, food and water was pure and our living quarters were well-maintained,” says Sonam Shah, 18. When they landed in Ahmedabad, they had to undergo a check-up. Says Abhimanyu Tripathi, 11, “We were made to fill a medical form at the airport. We were checked for common cold and our travel details were looked into.”
Parents, however, are taking no chances. “We have collected blood samples of participants and will be sending them for tests to Mumbai within this week,” says Zil.
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Posted - 06/24/2009 : 18:53:10
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Update on Influenza a (H1N1) as on 24th June 2009
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World Health Organization has reported 55867 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 infection from 108 countries as on 24th June 2009. There have been 238 deaths.
Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 22 International airports. 49,040 passengers have been screened on 23.6.2009 of which 26791 passengers were from affected countries. 224 doctors and 112 paramedics are manning 77 counters at these airports. A cumulative total of 23,31,717 passengers have been screened.
Five new cases have been reported today. Two are from Delhi and one each from Madurai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. Of the two cases in Delhi one is a 40 year old male who travelled from USA transiting Germany. The second case is his wife who is 39 year old and travelled with him. Both developed fever, sore throat and body-ache and reported to the identified health facility on 22.6.2009. The case from Madurai is an eight year old boy who travelled from USA transiting Mumbai reaching Madurai on 13.6.2009 and reported to the health facility on 18.6.2009. The case from Chandigarh is a 19 year old male who travelled from USA and reached New Delhi on 20.6.2009 and travelled by road to Gurdaspur. He developed fever, cough, nasal catarrh on 22.6.2009 and reported to the health facility at Chandigarh. The case from Hyderabad is a 15 year old female who travelled from Hong Kong transiting Singapore and reaching Hyderabad on 19.6.2009. She developed complaints of sore throat, running nose and fever on 22.6.2009 and admitted on the same day to the identified health facility.
The condition of indigenous positive case [66 year old female] at Delhi, covered in earlier reports, is stable.
532 persons have been tested so far of which 73 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine]. Of these, six are indigenous cases, who got the infection from the positive cases who traveled from abroad. The seventh indigenous case reported yesterday, though a family contact has travel history from USA and hence treated as an imported case. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the novel virus. 157 out of the 532 persons have been identified through entry screening, twenty one through contact tracing and the rest were self reported.
Of the 73 cases, forty three have been discharged. Rest of them remain admitted to the identified health facility.
The situation is being monitored.
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Posted - 06/25/2009 : 03:28:57
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Swine flu cases hit 1,000 in Japan: Govt
25 Jun 2009, 1024 hrs IST, AFP
TOKYO: Japan's tally of swine flu cases hit 1,000 on Thursday after two new infections were reported, but there have been no deaths from the A(H1N1) virus, the health ministry said.
The virus was first reported in Japan in early May and quickly spread through high schools in the western cities of Kobe and Osaka before infecting a wider population.
The World Health Organization in a global update Wednesday reported 55,867 laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu in 109 countries and 238 human deaths from the disease since late March.
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Posted - 06/25/2009 : 10:43:18
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Update on Influenza A HINI as on 25th June 2009
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World Health Organization has reported 55867 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 infection from 108 countries as on 24th June 2009. There have been 238 deaths. No further update is available.
Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 22 International airports. 45,316 passengers have been screened on 24.6.2009 of which 32,333 passengers were from affected countries. 224 doctors and 112 paramedics are manning 77 counters at these airports. A cumulative total of 23,77,033 passengers have been screened.
Five new cases have been reported today. Two are from Gurgaon, one each from Delhi, Pune and Kolkata. Of the two cases in Gurgaon, one is a 19 year old male who traveled from Minnesota to London, staying there for 10 days and reached Delhi on 21.6.2009. He had fever, cough and nasal catarrh on 22.6.2009. The second case from Gurgaon is a 10 year old female who traveled from New York to New Delhi on 19.6.2009. She had fever, cough and sore throat on 21.6.2009. Both of them were under home quarantine and being shifted to health facility on testing positive. The case from Delhi is a six year old female child who traveled from Miami, USA transiting Frankfurt reaching Delhi on 18.6.2009. Both her parents who traveled with her have already tested positive and undergoing treatment. The case from Pune is a 29 year old male who traveled from San Francisco transiting Hong Kong and reached Mumbai on 24.6.2009 and further traveled to Pune. He developed fever, chills, rigor, sore throat and headache and reported to identified health facility on the same day. The case from Kolkata is a seven year old female child who traveled from Melbourne to Kolkata transiting Bangkok reaching Kolkata on 23.6.2009. She was detected at the Airport screening and shifted to identified health facility.
The indigenous positive case [66 year old female] at Delhi, covered in earlier reports, is stable.
588 persons have been tested so far of which 78 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine]. Of these, six are indigenous cases, who got the infection from the positive cases who traveled from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the novel virus. 163 out of the 588 persons have been identified through entry screening, twenty one through contact tracing and the rest were self reported. Of the 78 cases, fifty have been discharged. Rest of them remain admitted to the identified health facility.
The situation is being monitored.
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Posted - 06/25/2009 : 11:00:41
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Swine flu overreaction
Thursday, June 25th 2009
Let us be quite clear: the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, is not dangerous. It is highly contagious but the flu symptoms are not generally life-threatening and, in fact, you are more at risk if you get the more common flu.
We feel it necessary to state this in light of what may be growing, and quite unnecessary, terror over the spreading of the swine flu. Our lead story in Tuesday's Express told of the unpleasant experience of 35-year-old Cheryl Antoine, who returned from Miami on June 11 and, seven days later, found out that she had the H1N1 virus. But as Ms Antoine, a mother of two, related, the staff at the health centre treated her like a leper of olden days. They kept her and her children waiting in the backyard, shouted at anyone who went near them, and even the doctor, according to Ms Antoine, stood three feet from her ten-year-old son to take a swab from his throat. So, if trained medical personnel are acting so panicky, what must members of the public think?
Part of the problem is lack of education, and another part is improperly transmitted information from the authorities (including, we must admit, the media). Take the term "pandemic". The average person, hearing that the H1N1 is now a pandemic, automatically hears "life-threatening". But a pandemic is just a disease that has appeared in enough countries to be a global problem-i.e. the term reflects ease of transmission, not its threat-to-life level.
Indeed, the World Heath Organisation and other authorities need to emphasise such basics a little more-after all, the very reason the WHO changed the disease's name from "swine flu" to "H1N1 virus" was because people had the misconception that you could get the virus from eating pork. But this is quite improbable, so Trinbagonians may continue to stuff their roast and geera pork without fear.
What also exacerbates such unfounded fears is the fact that deaths from the disease naturally garner more attention than mere infections. But the number of fatalities worldwide from the swine flu, as a percentage of infections, has been quite small. And most of the persons who have died from this disease have been very old, very young, or had compromised immune systems. Put another way, if you are in good health and you get the H1N1 virus, you are going to have flu symptoms-the cough, the sniffles, the fever, and so on-and be fine again within ten days.
Of course, everyone should take all sensible precautions to avoid getting ill. But you need not add unwarranted stress to your mind as you do so.
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Posted - 06/25/2009 : 19:12:43
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H1N1 'swine' flu has infected an estimated 1 million in U.S.
The virus is also spreading rapidly through the Southern Hemisphere. A French company announces large-scale production of a vaccine.
By Thomas H. Maugh II
3:54 PM PDT, June 25, 2009
At least 1 million Americans have now contracted the novel H1N1 influenza, according to mathematical models prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while data from the field indicates that the virus is continuing to spread even though the normal flu season is over and that an increasing proportion of victims are being hospitalized.
Meanwhile, the virus is continuing its rapid spread through the Southern Hemisphere, infecting increasing numbers of people and at least one pig.
Nearly 28,000 laboratory-confirmed U.S. cases of the virus, also known as swine flu, have been reported to the CDC, almost half of the more than 56,000 cases globally reported to the World Health Organization.
But Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance official with CDC, told a vaccine advisory committee meeting in Atlanta today that standard models of viral spread indicate that many times that number have been infected. Although 1 million seems like a high number, between 15 million and 60 million Americans are infected by the influenza virus during a normal flu season.
At least 3,065 of those infected in this country have been hospitalized and 127 have died. The very young are most likely to be infected, Finelli said, but older patients seem to suffer more. The average age of swine flu victims is 12, the average age of hospitalized patients is 20 and the average age of those who have died is 37, she said.
The normal seasonal flu virus has virtually disappeared from this country, as would be expected. But the novel H1N1 virus is continuing to spread, and now accounts for 98% of all cases.
"So far, it doesn't look like transmission is declining at all," Finelli said.
The spread is highest in New England and the Northeast, and it is beginning to take its toll. Dr. Andrew Doniger, director of public health for Monroe County, N.Y., which includes the city of Rochester, said hospitals, emergency rooms and laboratories in the county are being overwhelmed by "very high volumes" of patients. He called on those who have mild symptoms to self-medicate at home.
In the Southern Hemisphere, which is one month into its flu season, several countries, particularly Chile, Argentina and Australia, are already feeling the effects of the new virus. Chile has had more than 4,000 laboratory-confirmed cases and seven deaths, Argentina more than 1,200 cases and 17 deaths, and Australia 3,200 cases and three deaths.
In Argentina, the virus is spreading particularly rapidly in the conurbano, the densely populated working-class suburbs and slums that ring Buenos Aires. Hospitals in the area are postponing elective surgeries to have more beds available for flu patients, and the government is sending mobile clinics into many of the neighborhoods.
In Chile, emergency room visits have tripled and waiting times in public hospitals are seven hours or more.
Epidemiologists fear that the novel H1N1 virus may exchange genetic information with other flu viruses while it is working its way through the Southern Hemisphere and develop a greater pathogenicity when it returns to the north this fall, but so far that is not happening, said WHO director-general Dr. Margaret Chan. In a news conference in Moscow today, she said that "the virus is still very stable. . . . But we all know the influenza virus is highly unpredictable and has great potential for mutation."
One surprising victim of the virus is a pig in Argentina. Jorge Amaya, director of the animal health and sanitation service there, said that the animal had recovered and that other pigs were being tested for the virus. He said he thinks the pig caught it from a human.
That was the initial theory when researchers found the virus in a Canadian herd early in the pandemic, but subsequent tests of the virus showed that it was different from the one that had infected their caretaker. As of now, no one knows how the pigs became infected.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been monitoring pigs throughout this country for signs of the virus, but so far has reported no infections.
Some help for the upcoming winter flu season is on the way. The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis said today that it had begun large-scale production of a vaccine against the novel H1N1 virus. The company did not say how many doses it was preparing, and noted that it was still producing seasonal flu vaccine for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
The company has the capacity to make 270 million doses of vaccine per year at its three plants, two in the United States and one in France. The novel H1N1 vaccine has to be tested before it can be used.
thomas.maugh@latimes.com
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 11:13:48
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World Health Organization has reported 55867 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 infection from 108 countries as on 24th June 2009. There have been 238 deaths. No further update is available.
Health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 22 International airports. 51,140 passengers have been screened on 25.6.2009 of which 29,550 passengers were from affected countries. 224 doctors and 112 paramedics are manning 77 counters at these airports. A cumulative total of 24,28,173 passengers have been screened.
Two new cases have been reported today one each from Delhi and Mumbai. The case from Mumbai is a 15 year old female who traveled from USA reached Delhi on 22.6.2009 and traveled to Mumbai by Train on 23.6.2009. She had complaints of fever, cough and running nose and reported to identified health facility at Mumbai on 25.6.2009. The case from Delhi is a 18 year old female and a contact of earlier positive case. She had fever, cough, sore throat and nasal catarrh and admitted in the identified health facility in Delhi on 25.6.2009.
The indigenous positive case [66 year old female] at Delhi, covered in earlier reports, is stable.
629 persons have been tested so far of which 80 are positive for Influenza A H1N1 [Swine]. Of these, seven are indigenous cases, who got the infection from the positive cases who traveled from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the novel virus. 176 out of the 629 persons have been identified through entry screening, twenty one through contact tracing and the rest were self reported.
Of the 80 cases, 56 have been discharged. Rest of them remain admitted to the identified health facility.
The situation is being monitored.
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 11:18:32
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Second A(H1N1) flu case in Pune
Pune (PTI): The second case of A(H1N1) flu was confirmed here on Friday by health officials within three days after the first one, taking the number of affected cases to four in Maharashtra.
A 24-year-old man, who contracted the virus in the US, was admitted to Civic Naidu Hospital's quarantined ward immediately after he reported his symptoms.
He had returned to the city on Wednesday and was referred to the hospital after he complained of throat irritation. His throat swabs sent to National Institute of Virology (NIV) tested positive on Thursday, they said.
In view of the alarming spread of the virus, the health authorities are now focusing on breaking the transmission chain by "contact tracing", that is, identifying the persons who had travelled along with the patients infected by H1N1. |
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 11:20:06
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Australia reports fourth A(H1N1) flu-related death
Melbourne (AP): A 71-year-old woman became the fourth A(H1N1) flu-related death in Australia in a week, an official said on Friday.
Her death was the fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, with the Philippines reporting on Monday that a virus-infected patient had died.
The Australian woman is also the third to die with the virus in Victoria, the state where 1,509 of Australia's 3,280 A(H1N1) flu cases had been confirmed by today, state acting chief health officer Rosemary Lester said.
Relatives of the woman, who died yesterday, asked that no details of her medical history be revealed, Ms. Lester said. |
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 20:58:57
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suspect at GMCH-32
27 Jun 2009, 0315 hrs IST, TNN
CHANDIGARH: Another suspected swine flu case was reported at GMCH-32 on Friday. The patient, a 33-year-old doctor from Haryana, had recently visited his relatives in Hyderabad. UT’s nodal officer for swine flu HC Gera said the suspect’s swab samples have been sent for tests.
Meanwhile, reports for repeat samples of 19-year-old from Gurdaspur, who was the first in city to test positive for H1N1, have turned out to be negative. Test reports for a sector-38 resident, who had returned from Singapore, have also proved negative.
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Posted - 06/27/2009 : 01:45:46
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Another suspected case of A(H1N1) flu in Chennai
Chennai (PTI): A 24-year-old man was admitted to a hospital here today with suspected symptoms of A(H1N1) flu on his arrival from Singapore.
The youth, who arrived along with his family members at the airport here last night, was suffering from cough and fever following which he was quarantined.
A special team of doctors attended on him and he was sent to the Government Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) here, where he has been quarantined this morning, airport officials said.
Earlier this week, a couple who was admitted to the CDH had tested positive for the virus. An eight-year-old boy in Madurai, who complained of fever, cough and sore throat on return from New Jersey, had also tested positive for the A(H1N1) influenza.
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'Swine flu more dangerous than bird flu'
