Umesh Isalkar, |There is a resurgence of swine flu in the state with the H1N1 virus infecting four more people and claiming two lives in Mumbai and Nashik.
Himanshu Nitnaware, |The health department of the zilla parishad on Monday registered a confirmed swine flu death from the civic body limits and three suspected deaths from the H1N1 virus from other parts of the district.
|Swine flu has killed 20 people in the state, while 79 have been found positive, health minister Kaul Singh Thakur informed the House while leader of opposition Prem Kumar Dhumal said doctors were scared of treating the patients and had even vacated rooms close to influenza ward, which was sending out a wrong message.
Sushmi Dey, |A study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said that the H1N1 influenza A virus (swine flu), which has already claimed more than 1,500 lives in India since last December, may have acquired mutations that make it more dangerous than the previously circulating strains of the virus.