No summer camp couse of swine flu

Thousands of Jerry's Kids won't be going to summer camp this year because of the swine flu.
The Tucson-based Muscular Dystrophy Association says it is canceling the remainder of its summer camps immediately because swine flu has been reported in camps.
The MDA says children with muscular dystrophy are particularly at risk from the flu, although none of the children sickened after camps in recent weeks have died. About 1,800 children have gone to camp this year, but another 2,500 set to go in 35 states will be affected by the cancelations.
MDA spokesman Bob Mackle said Tuesday that nine children and three adults were confirmed to have swine flu after attending three MDA camps in May or early June.

Swine flu new cases in India

Five more persons, including three in the national capital, tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday as the total number of cases nationwide rose to 68.
One case in Delhi is that of a human to human transmission while the others in the city who were detected with the virus are women, a senior Health Ministry official said. The other two cases are from Bangalore and Hyderabad.
The human to human transmission case is that of a 15- year-old man who got the infection from a family member who was earlier detected as positive.
The other cases in the city are that of a 58-year-old woman, who travelled from the US, and a 23-year-old woman, who reached from Canada.
With this, the number of cases in Delhi has risen to 29. Yesterday, two persons were tested positive for the virus from the city, which has reported the highest number of swine flu cases in the country so far.
The case from Bangalore is that of 25-year-old man who came to the southern city yesterday while a 30-year-old woman, who came from the US, tested positive for the disease in Hyderabad.
"Out of the 68 cases, 41 have been discharged. Rest of the patients are admitted to the identified health facilities across the country," the official said.
The WHO reported 52,160 laboratory confirmed cases of A/H1N1 influenza infection from 99 countries till yesterday. There have been 231 deaths due to swine flu.
In India, health screening of passengers coming from affected countries is continuing in 22 international airports.
Till yesterday, 45,493 passengers have been screened of which 27,906 passengers were from affected countries.
In Goa, samples of two suspected swine flu patients in have been sent for testing at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in Delhi.
"The mother-son duo has been quarantined and the report of their samples is awaited," an official said.
The 32-year-old son had arrived from US on June 2 and developed flu-like symptoms after few days, the official said, adding his mother (50), who lives in Goa, also showed similar symptoms later.

In India swine flu cases

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 June 17. There have been 180 deaths.

World Health Organization report for Swine flu

The World Health Organization says the global tally of deaths from swine flu has increased by 51 to 231.
WHO says most of the latest deaths occurred in the United States.
It says Colombia, Chile and Canada have also reported fatal cases.
WHO says the number of reported cases reached 52,160 on Monday. This is an increase of 7,873 since Friday.
The global body says Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Fiji and Slovenia reported their first cases over the weekend.
Earlier this month, WHO declared swine flu a "moderate" pandemic that would likely continue for 1-2 years.
The World Health Organisation said more than 50,000 swine flu cases had now been reported worldwide, with 231 deaths, mostly in Mexico and the US.
It declared swine flu a pandemic earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Montenegro's health minister said the country's first case of swine flu has been confirmed in a student who returned from the US.
Health Minister Miodrag Radunovic said the 19-year-old student returned to Montenegro on Saturday after taking part in an exchange programme in the US
He declined to name the student but said he was feeling better after flying to Montenegro's capital Podgorica from New Jersey via Munich in Germany and Belgrade in Serbia.

Swine flu case in Pune

Pune has its first case of H1N1 virus (swine flu), a 24-year-old software engineer who hails from Uttar Pradesh and stays in the city. The case was confirmed by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) on Monday evening.
The engineer was detected with swine flu symptoms and had been quarantined at the Naidu Hospital since Saturday. His throat swabs were sent to the NIV on Sunday. Dr M S Chadda, Deputy Director, NIV, when contacted, confirmed that the samples had tested positive for H1N1 virus.
The techie had visited New Jersey and flown to Mumbai via London. He came to Pune and then went to Lucknow and Delhi before returning to the city on June 18. He has been travelling since June 13. After he showed swine flu symptoms, he volunteered to be admitted to the hospital on Saturday, said Dr D B Barathe, superintendent, Naidu Hospital.
Even as the state and local health officials were officially waiting for a confirmation from the Centre to declare the patient positive with the swine flu virus, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) medical officer Dr R R Pardeshi said Tamiflu medication will be given to the patient.

Swine flu reach in China

AUTHORITIES in southern China closed an elementary school after 30 students there fell ill from swine flu, Chinese state media reported, as infections from the virus continued to climb across the Asia-Pacific region.
The children, all from a primary school in Guangdong province's Dongguan city, fell ill with A(H1N1) flu at the end of last week, the provincial health department said in a statement posted on its website late on Sunday.

Authorities closed Shipai Central Primary School for a week, and have quarantined those in close contact with the patients. The health department said the students' symptoms were mild, but warned the risk of a partial epidemic was looming in the province. Guangdong neighbours Hong Kong, where many schools have been closed following H1N1 flu outbreaks.
The students were all reported in stable condition since their illness was mild. Authorities decided to close the school, which has 1,314 students, for a week after the cases were reported.
China's state broadcaster reported on Sunday that 58 more people were confirmed with swine flu, bringing the total on the mainland to 414.
The World Health Organisation has declared swine flu a pandemic.

Teenage patient died by swine flu

A 15-year-old boy in Buffalo, N.Y., who was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, has died of related complications, his grandmother says.
WIVB-TV in Buffalo reported the grandmother of Matthew Davis confirmed the teenage swine flu patient was taken off life support Saturday after he took a significant turn for the worse.
Lucretia Belton, mother of the eighth-grader, said her son's kidneys had failed, forcing him to be kept alive by machines.
Belton added her son had suffered from complications from the H1N1 virus, including a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and pneumonia.
Prior to her son's removal from life support at Women and Children's Hospital, Belton offered a heartfelt warning to parents about swine flu.
"This is no joke, this is really, really, really serious. Please get your kids, any kind of sign, get them there, don't wait until we get this far like my baby," Shelton said Friday.
WIVB reported a 9-year-old girl at the Buffalo hospital had also been diagnosed with swine flu. The girl, whose identity was not reported, was reportedly in critical condition.

Swine flu reach in Delhi

Is Delhi losing the battle to contain swine flu? The statistics are certainly taking on an ominous hue. A new case of H1N1 influenza
was confirmed in the Capital on Sunday, taking Delhi's total number of swine flu cases to 22.Cases in Delhi now significantly outnumber Hyderabad, which has 15 confirmed cases and was initially said to be the hub of swine flu in India. Of the six human-to-human transmission cases reported in the country, five are in Delhi.
Sunday's case is of a 15-year-old boy, who traveled from New York to Delhi, and is admitted in Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital at present. Of the 22 confirmed cases in Delhi, 13 are undergoing treatment at various government hospitals. "There are eight patients in RML, three in Airport Health Organisation Hospital and two in Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital," said Dr Anjan Prakash, additional nodal officer for H1N1 influenza, Delhi government.
What's worrying is the sharp rise in the number of confirmed H1N1 influenza cases reported in the city in the last few days. The Delhi government's health department has now intensified its screening and contact tracing drive.
According to Delhi health minister Kiran Walia, "Delhi is one of the main cities in the country. We get a lot of people from abroad and generally people are traveling. Another reason for the sudden increase in the number is that we are doing aggressive contact tracing of people who have tested positive for H1N1 influenza. We had examined eight relatives of a 35-year-old woman, who tested positive, and had admitted four of them as they were showing flu-like symptoms. Four people from that family tested positive. All were human-to-human transmission cases. Once a case is tested positive, we sending our teams to track all the possible family members who had come in contact with the patient."
The health department has also intensified its public awareness campaign and is training more-and-more government hospital doctors to pick up H1N1 influenza in the initial stages. "There was a case reported from Tihar jail who was admitted in DDU hospital two days back. The man had traveled from US and was showing flu-like symptoms. He tested negative, but the doctor in jail was prompt enough to send him to our facility for testing. We are telling doctors to send patients to designated hospitals in case they come across any such patient. We are taking all measures to contain the spread of this infection," said Walia.