A 30-year-old man from Himachal Pradesh has been quarantined after it turned out that he had travelled in the same flight sitting close to a group of Jalandhar students who tested positive for swine flu.
A 30-year-old man from Himachal Pradesh has been quarantined after it turned out that he had travelled in the same flight sitting close to a group of Jalandhar students who tested positive for swine flu, official sources said on Tuesday.
A medical team Monday visited the house of Ashok Kumar in Ranni-Di-Hatti village of Kangra district and quarantined all the eight members of the family for suspected swine flu. Kumar had flown back to Delhi from Bahrain on June 12 on the same Qatar Airlines flight in which the boys from Jalandhar travelled, they said.
"The 30-year-old man and seven other members of his family have been kept under surveillance for 10 days," deputy chief medical officer, Kangra G R Kaushal told PTI over phone. Though the four-member medical team that examined Kumar did not find any external symptom of H1N1 influenza, he and his family have been quarantined for 10 days as a precaution, Kaushal said.
Kumar is being examined daily and his blood sample will be sent for microbiological test on discovery of even a slight symptom, Head of state-level Rapid Response Team on Swine flu Vinod Mehta told PTI. Meanwhile, suspicion of swine flu on the Kangra youth has forced the state to sound a high alert in the state.
Rapid response teams against swine flu have been constituted at district, health directorate and hospital levels in the hill state, state additional health secretary, Rakesh Kanwar said. He added that the state health officials were regularly keeping them abreast of information regarding swine flu issued by the Union Health Ministry and other organisations like WHO.
Mehta said as head of the state-level rapid response team he has been monitoring the situation across the state on a daily basis. Special arrangements have been made at district hospitals to keep in isolation and treat suspected cases, he said.
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