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Swine flu in India: Doctors say no need to panic
NDTV Correspondent, Monday June 8, 2009, New Delhi

Doctors have said that there is no reason to panic even though the first case of swine flu has been recorded in Delhi.

Early diagnosis is very important if you have flu like symptoms and been in close proximity with someone whose travelled from an infected country get checked immediately. HIN1 is easily treatable with Tamiflu.  

Earlier, a Health Ministry statement had confirmed one case in Delhi and the other as suspected case.

The confirmed case is that of a 35-year-old who reached Delhi from New York on the June 2. The man is on home quarantine and his contacts have been provided with medicine.

The Health Ministry says the suspected case of swine flu has been isolated in a hospital in Delhi.  This has taken the total number of affected people to 10.
 
Meanwhile, Hyderabad is battling the country's highest number of swine flu cases - seven in all. Four of them had travelled on the same British Airways flight from London to Hyderabad that carried 260 people onboard on May 31.

Health offcials say one reason why Andhra Pradesh is reporting the maximum cases is possibly because there are more number of software professionals from here in countries like the US.

Now the task is to try and limit the import of the infection into the country by seeking exit point screening in the affected countries. 
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Posted by Rajeswari on Aug 18, 2009
Sir, Is it not possible to temporarily restrict the people from the affected countries to India/Chennai at least for 10 days as a safety measure as it spreads mainly from them. I think screening at Airport is also 100% not effective
Posted by Niru V on Jun 08, 2009
Hoards of people arrive at international airports. We just have to fill the swine-flu form when we are in the flight, and show it to the "doctors"???? at the swine-flu counter at the airport. These fellows just put a rubber stamp, no questions asked, not even look at the passenger, whether he is likely to have symptoms or not of swine-flu. This happenned to me in Mumbai. There is no seriousness. These guys are bored, and "forced" to be there, so they are there doing night duty !
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