A city-based private company Monday started a drive to fumigate and sanitize the swine flu-affected schools in Chandigarh free of cost.
Alliance Formulations, a service provider for lifestyle and healthcare products, has come to the rescue of affected schools in the wake of increasing number of swine flu cases in them.
‘Understanding our corporate social responsibility, we [...]
Washington, Dec 31 (IANS) Under 18-year-olds are more likely than adults to catch swine flu from an infected family member, says a new study.
The data reveals that household contacts aged 18 or under were twice as likely to be infected by a patient in their household compared to adults aged 19 to 50.
No particular [...]
Guwahati, Dec 16 (IANS) Health authorities in Assam Wednesday sounded a fresh swine flu alert after two people, including a doctor at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH), tested positive for the H1N1 virus.
A health department spokesperson said a doctor at the GMCH, Rajib Rai Baruah, who was down with flu-like symptoms for the past [...]
Mexico City, Dec 15 (EFE) Mexico’s revenues from tourism will drop this year by some $1.4 billion, or 10.5 percent, from the 2008 total of $13.29 billion, the country’s tourism secretary said.
Rodolfo Elizondo told a press conference Monday that 2009 has been ‘without a doubt the worst year’ in the history of Mexican tourism, due [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 14 (IANS) A 65-year-old man has become the latest victim of the swine flu virus in Chandigarh that has reported 13 new H1N1 cases, officials said Monday.
The victim was a resident of Dadumajra village here and died in a government hospital late Sunday.
‘This patient was admitted to the Government Medical College and Hospital [...]
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The Delhi administration expects the number of swine flu cases to go down with the winters getting severe, an official said Friday as the capital reported three more deaths, taking the toll to 39.
‘A 28-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man died of swine flu in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital while [...]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Nine swine flu deaths, including five in Rajasthan, were reported in India Thursday taking the toll due to the Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 675 so far, health authorities said here.
A record 339 new cases were reported in the country, taking the number of people infected with the flu to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) A 52-year-old woman, who was admitted at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the capital, died of swine flu Thursday. With this, the cumulative death figure in the city has gone up to 36, health officials said.
‘On Thursday, a 52-year old woman who was suffering from swine flu died at [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 7 (IANS) Three deaths due to influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported here Monday, health officials said here.
‘Two persons died at PGIMER (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) while the third person died at a private hospital in the city. Five new positive cases were also reported – two each from Chandigarh [...]
Mexico City, Nov 27 (DPA) Mexico expects a peak in influenza A (H1N1) infections in late December and early January, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said Thursday.
Cordova Villalobos said that those are teh dryest and coldest weeks of the year in Mexico, and ‘the virus spreads faster’ in dry conditions.
‘There will be more [...]
Mexico City, Nov 24 (EFE) Mexico has received the first batch of 865,000 doses of vaccine against the swine flu virus, a minister has said.
Mexico, where the swine flu outbreak began, to date has registered 573 deaths and 64,322 infections.
‘This vaccine is going to be monitored by (state-owned) Laboratorios de Biologicos y Reactivos de Mexico,’ [...]
Washington, Nov 13 (DPA) Pediatric deaths from swine flu in the US are much more extensive than previously thought after health officials expanded their counting method, the nation’s disease control agency said Thursday.
An estimated 540 children under age 18 have died since the H1N1 flu virus emerged in mid April, more than four times the [...]
Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has stated that an Achilles’ heel for all strains of influenza may be plant-based anti-oxidants.
The study shows anti-oxidants – the same substances found in plant-based foods such as apples, grapes and strawberries – might hold the key in preventing [...]
Washington, October 24 (ANI): Scientists in Japan have created a new robot that sweats, moans, and exhibits symptoms of the H1N1 swine flu virus, in order to help train health care workers.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the life-sized humanoid was unveiled on October 22 at the Security and Safety Trade Expo, in [...]
Washington, Oct 9 (ANI): Infectious disease experts are eagerly awaiting the H1N1 virus to undergo a mutation.
John Tudor, Ph.D., a microbiologist at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia said: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization [...]
London, Oct 7 (ANI): A Japanese clothing firm is said to have created a men’s suit that is specially treated to ward off the flu virus.
Haruyama Trading Co, a leading menswear maker, has revealed that the suit is coated with the chemical titanium dioxide, which reacts with light to break down and kill the virus, [...]
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) A 27-year-old woman succumbed to influenza A (H1N1) Monday taking the toll in Delhi to 15, the state Health Minister Kiran Walia said.
The patient died at the Safdarjung Hospital. She was suffering from rheumatic heart diseases and had undergone treatment at the Escort Heart Institute before being shifted to the [...]
Taipei, Oct 1 (DPA) A Taiwan company Thursday launched what it called the world’s first spray capable of destroying the swine flu virus.
VirusBom costs 350 Taiwan dollars ($10) and can be used 700 times, Money Marketing Communication representative said. It contains a chemical compound that can destroy many kinds of bacteria and viruses, including the [...]
Ghaziabad, Sep 24 (IANS) Delhi Public School (DPS) at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad Thursday announced closure of its senior wing after two more students were reported to be infected with the swine-flu virus, officials said.
Two days back, the school authorities announced closure of the primary wing after two children were found infected with the swine flu [...]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) As the H1N1 virus continued to spread, Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain Thursday said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) would evaluate its response to checking the swine flu outbreak in the capital which has claimed nine lives.
‘Swine flu, other than causing loss of human lives, should give us reason to [...]
London, Sept 24 (ANI): Rockstar Marilyn Manson has contracted swine flu.
The 40-year-old had got himself tested earlier this month and his report confirmed that he had the dreaded flu.
The Daily Express quoted Manson as writing on his personal blog: “So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU.
“I know everyone [...]
Ghaziabad, Sep 22 (IANS) Delhi Public School at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad Tuesday closed down their primary section for a week as a precautionary measure after two of their students were reported to be affected by the swine-flu virus, officials said.
‘Two students were reported to be infected with the virus. Both are now fine and responding [...]
Seoul, Sep 18 (Xinhua) An 81-year-old woman has died of swine flu in South Korea Friday, raising to nine the number of fatalities from the viral disease in the country, health officials said.
The victim belonged to the South Jeolla province.
The patient was infected with the swine flu virus Sep 3.
South Korea reported its first [...]
New Delhi, Sep 11 (ANI): The Swine Flu death toll in India has gone up to 156, with the death of 11 more people reported from different parts of the country on Friday.
The number of affected in India from swine flu virus has gone up to 5,611. The national [...]
Mumbai, Aug 16 (ANI): Maharashtra is gearing up to celebrate “Ganesh Chaturthi”, the popular festival that celebrated the birth of Lord Ganesh.
The festival begins August 23 and would continue for ten days. At the end of the 10-day long festival, idols of Lord Ganesha are [...]
Bangalore, Aug 16 (ANI): The death of a woman named Shilpa Hegde, 27, due to swine flu virus in Bangalore on Sunday, pushed the country’s swine flu death toll to 27.
With the death of Shilpa, the number of deaths due to swine flu in Bangalore has risen to five.
On Saturday, 26-year-old Shamshad Begum had [...]
London, Aug 13 (ANI): Some kinds of influenza viruses may set up people infected with them to be at higher risk of developing chronic neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s later in life, according to a new study.
Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis examined the impact of the H5N1 avian flu virus [...]
Pune, Aug 13 (ANI): A nine-month-old baby succumbed to the deadly swine flu virus in Pune on Thursday taking the country’s swine flu death toll to 18.
According to sources, the infant, who was suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, died at the Sahyadri Munot Hospital.
On Wednesday, a 48-year-old had succumbed to swine flu [...]
Pune, Aug 13 (ANI): A 75-year-old woman succumbed to the deadly swine flu virus in Pune on Thursday taking the country’s swine flu death toll to 19.
Bharti Goyal died in the KEM Hospital. Earlier, a nine-month-old boy Rutwik Kamle was died at the Sahyadri Munot Hospital.
With this, the number of flu deaths in Pune [...]
Sonauli (UP), Aug 13 (ANI): Hundreds of tourists and others travel between India and Nepal through the Sonauli checkpoint in Uttar Pradesh. But it is shocking to learn that no proper arrangements exist here to screen the travellers, the foreigners visiting India for first time in particular, for any possible swine flu symptoms.
Many of the [...]
