The number of swine flu cases across the country climbed upto 17 on Saturday as the Union Health Ministry warned of a spurt in number of cases after monsoon.
The infant brother of a six-year-old girl who had tested positive for swine flu on Friday, too has come into the grip of the deadly virus. The one-and-half-year-old boy tested positive for H1N1 on Saturday. He had traveled on the same flight as his sister from New York to Hyderabad via Mumbai on Tuesday. Both children are on medication and now stable.
In Chennai, a five-year-old girl child from California has been quarantined along with her parents for suspected swine flu since last night after they arrived on a Lufthansa flight via Franfurt. "The five-year-old child was suffering from fever and throat pain on arrival at around 12.30 am. We immediately rushed her along with her parents, including her doctor father, to the Infectious Disease Hospital at Tondiarpet, which is the nodal hospital for swine flu in our state" Tamil Nadu public health and preventive medicine department director Dr Elango told DNA.
The father a doctor in California, wanted to move to a private hospital and we have quarantined them in Apollo Hospital, Chennai.
Meanwhile, tests conducted on three persons, two from Bangalore and one from Mangalore turned out to be negative. So far samples of 240 persons have been tested of which 17 have been tested positive for swine flu. Of the 17 cases, 9 have been discharged while rest are stable but in hospital. Among the 240 tested, 82 were identified through health screening at airports while the rest were samples from persons who have self reported.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported 29,699 laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu from74 countries. There have been 145 deaths.
"They say that the H1N1 group of viruses proliferate more when the weather is cooler," health secretary Naresh Dayal said. "We are happy that this time it is not proliferating much because of high temperature. But after the rains chances are it may come again," he said.
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