Nine students quarantined with symptoms of swine flu

A day after a boy who had returned from the US tested positive for swine flu, nine other students who accompanied him to the trip were quarantined at a hospital here on Monday after they showed symptoms of the disease.
 
"We have admitted as many as nine students, who have just returned from America, in the isolation ward of civil hospital after they complained of fever and sore throat. Their
blood samples have been sent to Delhi for tests," Dr SS Walia, civil surgeon of Civil Hospital told PTI.

The nine were part of a group of 30 students and three teachers who had gone to an education trip to NASA in the USA. One of the students in the group on Sunday tested
positive for the virus and has been hospitalised in Delhi. The blood samples of these nine students have been sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases
(NICD), New Delhi last night and the report is expected to reach tonight, added Dr Walia.
 
Four of the students have been sent home after medical check up, Nodal Officer on Swine Flu and Project Director of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), Deepak Bhatia said, adding they have been given medicines and told not to
venture out.
 
Others who complained about fever include two from Kapurthala and one each from Bhatinda, Hoshiarpur and Ropar and one from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, Bhatia said.