With the swine flu deaths being recorded in India now, it is crucial for every citizen to get aware of this disease, its correct symptoms and the right place for treatment. Information on swine flu will be helpful in saving yourself and also in guiding someone you know having the symptoms to the right hospital. [...]
Colombia’s Uribe Has Swine Flu
Colombian President Uribe has the swine flu and officials have advised other South American leaders who met with him at a summit of the infection.
H1N1 Flu Sends Minorities to Hospitals
The H1N1 virus was four times more likely to send African Americans and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a [...]
Most people who died due to swine flu in the country reported to hospitals with very severe cough and breathlessness. This was revealed in a study of the first 33 out of the total 78 deaths in the country. Meanwhile, swine flu has claimed three more lives, taking the countrywide toll to 88.
According to the [...]
New Delhi: Irrational use of swine flu drug can make the H1N1 virus resistant to the medicine making it fatal as the Tamiflu loses its efficiency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
The global health body has cautioned India as habit of pill-popping or not completing the course of medicine as suggested by the physician [...]
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients hospitalized [...]
Geneva, Aug 29 : Over 2,100 people worldwide have died from the influenza A (H1N1) since the virus was identified in April, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
All the six WHO regions have reported deaths from the pandemic, with the Americas reporting the largest death number of 1,876, the UN agency said in a [...]
New Delhi, Aug 28 : With the country reporting five more swine flu deaths Friday, taking the toll from the H1N1 virus to 83, the government is considering selling the anti-influenza drug in the open market.
Three patients died in Karnataka and one each in Maharashtra and Kerala. In Karnataka, two deaths were reported from Bangalore [...]
Mumbai: Sir J J Hospital
Ph:(022) 23735555, 23739031, 23760943, 23768400 / 23731144 / 5555 / 23701393 / 1366
Mumbai: Haffkine Institute
Ph:(022) 24160947, 24160961, 24160962
Chennai: King Institute of Preventive Medicine
Ph:(044) 22501520, 22501521 & 22501522
Chennai: Government General Hospital
Ph:(044) 25305000, 25305723, 25305721, 25330300
Pune: Naidu Hospital
Ph:(020) 26058243
Pune: National Institute of Virology
Ph:(020) 26006290
Kolkata: D Hospital
Ph:(033) 23701252
Coimbatore: Coimbatore Government General Hospital
Ph:(0422) 2301393, 2301394, [...]
What is swine influenza and influenza A (H1N1)?
Swine influenza is a contagious respiratory disease that normally only affects pigs. It is commonly caused by H1N1 strains of swine influenza A virus. However, other strains, such as H1N2, H3N1 and H3N2 also circulate in pigs. While it is not usual for people to get swine flu, [...]
With an aim to launch vaccine for Influenza H1N1 A Virus (swine flu) in India, Cadila Pharmaceutical will seek the government’s nod in
two days for initiating clinical trials in this regard.
Cadila Pharmaceutical Ltd (CPL) had set up a joint venture ‘CPL Biologicals Pvt Ltd’ with the US-based vaccine maker Novavax for manufacturing and developing a [...]
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