Swine Flu: How Long Will It Last? ;
Despite the Rapid Spread of H1n1 Virus in India, Mortality Rates Are Still Low and It Is Not As Deadly As Was Feared. But the Danger Remains.
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One week, 17 deaths and over 1,000 confirmed cases. You can count the days on your fingers, but not the victims of the new public health menace -the H1N1 flu. "Its speed is without precedent," says Dr Randeep Guleria, professor of Internal Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). "It has spread more in less than six weeks than influenza viruses did in six months in past pandemics. It has gone to more than 22 cities and towns in the country."
The mysterious flu, that set the world atwitter, lurched toward India-almost reluctantly-in May, when a 23-year-old Indian carried the virus from New York to Hyderabad. But with 332 health workers screening 45,000 passengers at 21 airports, June saw just 35 confirmed cases. Even by mid-July, the numbers stayed reassuringly low at 285.See the full content of this document
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Swine Flu: How Long Will It Last? ; Despite the Rapid Spread of H1n1 Virus in India, Mortality Rates Are Still Low and It Is Not As Deadly As Was Feared. But the Danger Remains.
Enter August and just as the World Health Organisation (WHO) quietly abandoned its flu count in countries like the US where it had spread rapidly and everybody started hoping H1N1 would not be interested in India -the flu slammed ashore. Within a week, both the infection rate and the death rate zoomed. Not just in Pune, Mumbai or Delhi. From Meghalaya to Jalandhar, Bangalore to Lucknow, Hyderabad to Ajmer, Jammu to Thiruvananthapuram, Varanasi to Vadodara-the pandemic's progress is creating panic and pandemonium.
Panic has gripped the "worrie...See the full content of this document
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