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Three Delhi doctors test positive for swine flu
NDTV Correspondent, Friday August 7, 2009, New Delhi

Three doctors in Delhi have tested positive for swine flu. While the one from Safdurjung Hospital has been quarantined at home, the two others - who are from CGHS and a private hospital - have been hospitalised. 

Meanwhile, Pune continues to battle the flu. Two men in the city are on ventilator after testing positive for swine flu.

A private doctor had breathing problems after he was tested positive, following which, he was put on ventilator.

Another victim, a 35-year-old man suffering from the H1N1 virus, was also moved to intensive care and put on a ventilator. The patient is a pharmacist. He has a history of heart ailment. Relatives of the patient could not say how he contracted the virus.

Both the patients are stable now, and are admitted in the city's Sassoon General Hospital.

This comes three days after 14-year-old Reeda Sheikh became country's first H1N1 casualty.

Overall, 23 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours across India. Of these, 11 cases are from Delhi, eight from Pune and four from Mangalore.

One of the patients is a 25-year-old man who reached Delhi from Chicago on July 28. In Pune too, one of the patients returned from Frankfurt to Mumbai.

So far 615 swine flu cases have been reported in India whereas the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the number of flu cases being reported are coming down worldwide.

New flu cases come up in Delhi-NCR.

Meanwhile, 11 new cases of H1N1 have come up in the National Capital Region - two from Noida and one from Gurgaon.

An 18-year-old student of Amity University, and a 13-year-old boy from Vishwa Bharti School have been found to be infected in Noida. In Gurgaon, a seven-year-old boy of Sriram Aravali School has tested positive.

Sanskriti School is closed till Monday after an 11-year-old Class VI student tested positive. The school is taking sanitisation measures.

Three new screening centres have also been opened at Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College.

The Delhi Health Minister meanwhile has said that two IIT-Delhi students were admitted with H1N1.

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Posted by LM on Aug 07, 2009
Where did the H1N1 virus come from? How did it Originate? I googled these and came up with some interesting and horrifying results, some saying that this strain of virus which is combination of the human, avian and a couple of strains of the swine flu is a genetically manufactured virus. In fact Jane Burgermeister- a science journalist and investigative reporter has filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and high ranking U.S. officials and business executives. She alleges that officials conspired to use a virus the H1N1 swine flu that was engineered in a lab to create a flu pandemic in order to sell vaccines. This sounds serious and quite alarming. In fact many places it is reported that the mandatory vaccine would be far more dangerous than the flu! Is there any truth in all this - or is it too far fetched. Are we too busy blaming ourselves and grappling with this crippling turn of events and turning a blind eye to the greater realities. Just want to know is there and Ayurvedic cure for this. Or can't we Indians find our own vaccines??
Posted by Sudhir on Aug 07, 2009
If doctor's themselves are infected, that speaks for the quality of the doctors and medical education in India!
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